Determining the Religious Coping Styles of Adolescents in Turkey During COVID-19
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We sought to evaluate the religious coping styles of adolescents during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and its restrictions. The study was conducted online during the 2020 academic year among students in three randomly selected high schools in a city center located in Eastern Turkey. The students studying in the chosen high schools who agreed to participate were included in the study (n = 514). We found that most adolescents were anxious, had been affected in terms of health and life satisfaction, and felt sad due to isolation. Almost all subjects attached importance to their religious beliefs. The adolescents' mean Religious Coping Scale score was 2.23 ± 0.50, their mean Positive Religious Coping subscale score was 2.91 ± 0.73, and their mean Negative Religious Coping subscale score was 1.54 ± 0.52. Specifically, male adolescents of ages 15-17 whose incomes were less than their expenditures and who lived in a broken family had the highest level of negative religious coping. In light of these findings, adolescents can be supported by teaching them to develop positive religious coping styles during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Positive religious coping is associated with better psychosocial adjustment, while negative religious coping is associated with psychosocial risk among Turkish adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic.
“A study conducted with Turkish adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic reported that positive religious coping was associated with better psychosocial adjustment, while negative religious coping was associated with psychosocial risk [26].”
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The Introduction states the general link between positive coping and psychosocial adaptation, and between negative coping and maladaptation. In this Turkish adolescent sample, the Results and Discussion link negative coping to affected life satisfaction and distress about isolation, but link positive coping to both hope and high anxiety; they do not establish an overall association with better psychosocial adjustment. (LLM, conf=0.86)
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- Authors
- Kadiroğlu, T., Güdücü Tüfekci, F., & Kara, A.
- Affiliations
- Atatürk University (TR)
- Kahramanmaraş Sütçü İmam University (TR)
- Corresponding author
- Kadiroğlu, Türkan
- Venue
- Journal of Religion and Health
- Published
- 2021-09-05
- Volume
- 60
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 3406-3417
- ISSN
- 0022-4197 (ISSN-L)
- 1573-6571
- PMC
- PMC8418683
- OpenAlex
- W3196723104
- Cited by
- 19
- References
- 34
- Citations by year
- 2026: 4 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 4 · 2023: 7 · 2022: 2
- FWCI
- 1.79
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Journal of Religion and Health (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Health › Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Religious studies › Contemporary Christian Leadership and Education
- Keywords
- religious coping, adolescents, COVID-19 pandemic, positive religious coping, negative religious coping, anxiety, social isolation, life satisfaction, family structure, socioeconomic status
- MeSH terms
- COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, Adaptation, Psychological, Adolescent, Humans, Male, Turkey, Pandemics
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