Pakistani Muslims Dealing With Cancer: Relationships With Religious Coping, Religious Orientation, And Psychological Distress

This study compared Pakistanis Muslims coping with cancer with controls who recollected their reactions to an earlier stressor. Cancer patients focused more strongly on the positive coping resources of their faith and had lower levels of psychological distress. In both groups, the Brief Positive and...

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Auteurs: Khan, Ziasma Haneef (Auteur) ; Sultana, Saabera (Auteur) ; Watson, P. J. (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Brill 2009
Dans: Research in the social scientific study of religion
Année: 2009, Volume: 20, Pages: 217-237
Sujets non-standardisés:B Histoire des religions
B Religionswissenschaften
B Sciences sociales
B Religion & Gesellschaft
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Résumé:This study compared Pakistanis Muslims coping with cancer with controls who recollected their reactions to an earlier stressor. Cancer patients focused more strongly on the positive coping resources of their faith and had lower levels of psychological distress. In both groups, the Brief Positive and Negative Religious Coping and the Pakistani Coping Practices scales correlated positively with an array of religious measures. Negative Religious Coping and Pakistani Coping Practices also predicted greater psychological distress. Muslim women self-reported higher levels of religious coping than did Muslim men. These data most importantly suggested that the life-threatening condition of cancer brought the life-sustaining psychological resources of Islam into clearer focus for Muslim patients
Contient:Enthalten in: Research in the social scientific study of religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/ej.9789004175624.i-334.74