scholarly journals Religious Coping Methods among Cancer Patients in Three Islamic Countries: A Comparative Perspective

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (5) ◽  
pp. 72
Author(s):  
Fereshteh Ahmadi ◽  
Mohammad Rabbani
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Religious Coping ◽  
Cancer Patients ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
International Study ◽  
Sociocultural Perspective ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Coping Methods ◽  
Islamic Countries ◽  
Religious Coping Methods

The present article aimed to compare the use of religious coping methods among cancer patients in three Islamic countries from a sociocultural perspective. The article is based on an international study on meaning-making coping in ten countries, among others Malaysia, Iran and Turkey. Qualitative semi-structured interviews were conducted among cancer patients in Malaysia (29), Iran (27) and Turkey (25). The results of the comparison show certain differences in use of religious coping methods between informants in these three countries despite Islam being the dominant religion in all contexts. The findings of this comparative study show the important role culture plays in coping.

The lived experience of Buddhist-oriented religious coping in late life: Buddhism as a cognitive schema

2019 ◽  
pp. 135910531988274 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jianbin Xu
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Religious Coping ◽  
Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Analysis Data ◽  
Cognitive Schema ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Beliefs And Practices ◽  
Coping Methods ◽  
Mantra Meditation

This article explores how older Buddhists in Singapore use Buddhist beliefs and practices to cope with stress. Semi-structured interviews with six older Buddhists were conducted. Interview transcripts were analyzed using interpretative phenomenological analysis. Data analysis identified three ways of Buddhist-oriented religious coping: meaning-making coping, meditative coping, and ego-transcendence coping. In meaning-making coping, participants employed the notions of karma and duḥkha to make sense of stress. Participants’ meditative coping methods included visualization and mantra meditation. During ego-transcendence coping, participants drew on the notion of non-attachment to the ego. The three ways of Buddhist-oriented religious coping can be examined in a Buddhism-as-cognitive-schema perspective.

scholarly journals A Survey Study Among Cancer Patients in Turkey

2017 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 234-254 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fereshteh Ahmadi ◽  
Önver A. Cetrez ◽  
Pelin Erbil ◽  
Asil Ortak ◽  
Nader Ahmadi
Keyword(s):  
Religious Coping ◽  
Cancer Patients ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Survey Study ◽  
Spiritual Coping ◽  
Electronic Survey ◽  
Coping Methods ◽  
Quantitative Studies ◽  
The Media

To understand the role of culture on the use of the meaning-making coping among people who have been struck by cancer, qualitative and quantitative studies have been conducted in several countries like Sweden, China, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, and Turkey. This article reports on a quantitative study carried out in Turkey. The aim of the study has been to answer the following question: “Which meaning-making coping method (even nonreligious or spiritual coping methods) is used by informants?” The sample consists of 95 persons, 18+ who had been struck by cancer. The questionnaire was distributed to former/current cancer patients via a web address as an electronic survey through the media page of Cancer Survivors Association. The results of the study show that the most important coping methods used by cancer patients in Turkey are the religious coping (RCOPE) methods, particularly spiritual connection, active religious surrender, passive religious deferral, and pleading for direct intercession. Several RCOPE methods such as spiritual discontent, seeking support from clergy or members, punishing God reappraisal, and demonic reappraisal or self-directing religious coping are not used by the Turkish informants. Nor are non-RCOPE methods highly prevalent among informants.

scholarly journals How Islamic are young Muslim people’s poems?

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 71-87
Author(s):  
Joke Dewilde
Keyword(s):  
Literacy Practices ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Classroom Observations ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Safe Spaces ◽  
Spare Time ◽  
Muslim People ◽  
Islamic Countries ◽  
Devotional Texts

In this article, I investigate poetry written by two young Muslim people during their spare time. Adopting Shahab Ahmed’s (2016) understanding of Islamic in its plenitude and complexity, I ask how Islamic their texts are. The participants, Neda and Mohammed (both pseudonyms), grew up in Islamic countries where they were socialised in faith literacy practices, including practices around sacred and devotional texts, before moving to Norway in their teens. The data used for this article were collected during two linguistic ethnographies and include poems written in and outside of school, fieldnotes from classroom observations and transcripts from multiple semi-structured interviews. The interview questions concerned their poems and writing in general as well as their observations about living as Muslims in Norway. Although their poems include few or no explicit Islamic references, the findings support an argument that an Islamic lens gives meaning to the poems in terms of Islam as they engage with rather different Islamic norms and discourses. Whereas Mohammed’s texts are characterised by more prescriptive discourses leaving little room for alternative interpretations, Neda’s texts contain more wonder and perplexity and are thus in line with non-prescriptive discourses. I conclude by arguing that 1) the meanings of the poems are enriched in terms of Islam by viewing them through an Islamic lens and that 2) schools should provide safe spaces for young Muslims to develop their meaning-making and writing.

scholarly journals The Association of Positive or Negative Religious Coping Methods With Psychological Distress and Quality of Life Among Parents of Infants With Congenital Heart Disease

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jian-Feng Liu ◽  
Wen-Peng Xie ◽  
Wen-Hao Lin ◽  
Hua Cao ◽  
Qiang Chen
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Mental Health ◽  
Psychological Distress ◽  
Religious Coping ◽  
Congenital Heart ◽  
Coping Methods ◽  
Negative Religious Coping ◽  
Positive Religious Coping ◽  
Religious Coping Methods

Objective: The purpose of this study was to evaluate whether positive and negative religious coping methods were associated with psychological distress and quality of life in parents of infants with congenital heart disease (CHD).Methods: This descriptive, cross-sectional study was conducted at a provincial hospital in Fujian, China. Clinical data from 115 parents of infants with CHD were collected. Chinese Sociodemographic Forms, Brief RCOPE, Beck Depression Interview (BDI), and the Short Form Health Survey (SF-36) were used in this study.Results: The sex of caregivers in infants with CHD was an independent predictor of BDI scores. The positive religious coping score and the negative religious coping score were both independent predictors of the BDI score (β = −5.365, P = 0.006 and β = 4.812, p = 0.017). The correlation between the quality-of-life scores and positive or negative religious coping scores indicated that positive religious coping scores were significantly positively correlated with Vitality, Social Functioning, and Mental Health scores. There was a significant negative correlation between negative religious coping scores and mental health scores.Conclusions: Positive or negative religious coping methods may be associated with psychological distress and quality of life among parents of infants with CHD. It is suggested that more attention should be devoted to the influence of religious coping methods on parents of infants with CHD, and the use of religious resources should be encouraged.

scholarly journals A Comparative Survey Study on Meaning-Making Coping among Cancer Patients in Turkey

Religions ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 284
Author(s):  
Önver A. Cetrez ◽  
Fereshteh Ahmadi ◽  
Pelin Erbil
Keyword(s):  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Cancer Patients ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Survey Study ◽  
Spiritual Coping ◽  
Religious Leaders ◽  
Coping Methods ◽  
Younger Age ◽  
Big City ◽  
Spiritual And Religious Coping

(1) Background: The role of culture in secular, spiritual, and religious coping methods is important, but needs more attention in research. The aim has been to (1) investigate the meaning-making coping methods among cancer patients in Turkey and (2) whether there were differences in two separate samples (compared to Study 2, Study 1 had a younger age group, was more educated, and grew up in a big city), (3) paying specific attention to gender, age, education, and area of residence. (2) Methods: Quantitative study using a convenience sampling in two time periods, Study 1 (n = 94) and Study 2 (n = 57). (3) Results: In Study 2, there is a significant increase in several religious and spiritual coping strategies. Additionally, there is a positive correlation between being a woman and using more religious or spiritual coping strategies. Secular meaning-making coping strategies also increase significantly in Study 2. The results confirmed the hypotheses for gender, educational, and age differences in seeking support from religious leaders. The results also confirmed the hypotheses for gender and educational level in a punishing God reappraisal and demonic reappraisal. (4) Conclusions: As Turkey is a country at the junction of strong religiosity and deep-rooted secularism, dividing up the meaning-making coping methods into the religious and spiritual, on one hand, and the secular, on the other, reveals interesting results.

Religiousness, religious coping methods and distress level among psychiatric patients in Malaysia

2012 ◽  
Vol 59 (4) ◽  
pp. 332-338 ◽  
Author(s):  
MS Nurasikin ◽  
LA Khatijah ◽  
A Aini ◽  
M Ramli ◽  
SA Aida ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Religious Coping ◽  
Psychiatric Patients ◽  
Coping Methods ◽  
Distress Level ◽  
Religious Coping Methods
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