Cited by 121Religion, Spirituality, and PsychologyMindfulness and Compassion InterventionsMusculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation

Religious Coping with Chronic Pain

Bush, Ellen Greene, Rye, Mark S., Brant, Curtis R., Emery, Erin, Pargament, Kenneth I., Riessinger, Camala A.·1999·Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback

Abstract

This study examined the role of religious and nonreligious cognitive-behavioral coping in a sample of 61 chronic pain patients from a midwestern pain clinic. Participants described their chronic pain and indicated their use of religious and nonreligious cognitive-behavioral coping strategies. Results supported a multidimensional conceptualization of religious coping that includes both positive and negative strategies. Positive religious coping strategies were associated significantly with positive affect and religious outcome after statistically controlling for demographic variables. In contrast, measures of negative religious coping strategies were not associated significantly with outcome variables. Several significant associations also were found between nonreligious cognitive-behavioral coping strategies and outcome variables. The results underscore the need for further research concerning the contributions of religious coping in adjustment to chronic pain. Practitioners of applied psychophysiology should assess their chronic pain patients' religious appraisals and religious coping as another important stress management strategy.

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  • Religion and/or spiritual coping can sometimes be maladaptive (negative religious coping), including deferring responsibility to God, feeling abandoned by God, or blaming God.

    “However, other studies reported that sometimes religion and/or spiritual coping are maladaptive (ie, negative religious coping), including deferring all responsibility to God, feeling abandoned by God when support is needed, or blaming God for difficulties.128,129”

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Authors
Bush, E. G., Rye, M. S., Brant, C. R., Emery, E., Pargament, K. I., & Riessinger, C. A.
Affiliations
  • University of Dayton (US)
  • Baldwin Wallace University (US)
  • Sparrow Hospital (US)
Venue
Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback
Published
1999-12
Volume
24
Issue
4
Pages
249-260
ISSN
  • 0363-3586 (ISSN-L)
  • 1090-0586
  • 1573-3270
OpenAlex
W1770241773
Cited by
121
References
24
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2026: 1 · 2025: 1 · 2024: 5 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 4 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 5 · 2017: 6 · 2016: 5 · 2015: 3 · 2014: 7 · 2013: 13 · 2012: 4
FWCI
3.59
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Health › Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Pharmacology › Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation
Keywords
religious coping, chronic pain, positive religious coping, negative religious coping, positive affect, stress management, pain clinic patients
MeSH terms
Adaptation, Psychological, Adult, Affect, Aged, Chronic Disease, Education, Female, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Pain, Regression Analysis, Religion and Medicine, Socioeconomic Factors, Treatment Outcome

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