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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

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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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“The foundation for positive religious coping is to secure a relationship with the sacred (Bush et al., 1999; O’Brien et al., 2019), a positive point of view regarding the universe (Giordano et al., 2015), and, finally, a sense of spiritual connections with others (Allen & Lo, 2010; Ciarrocchi &…”
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A Randomized Controlled Trial of the Sources of Meaning Card Method: A New Meaning-Oriented Approach Predicts Depression, Anxiety, Pain Acceptance, and Crisis of Meaning in Patients with Chronic Pain
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“Six found no association between religiosity and pain intensity (Aukst-Margetic et al., 2005; Gerson & Skipper, 1975; Green Bush et al., 1999; Parenteau, 2008; Rifkin et al., 1999; Rippentrop et al., 2005), while one found a positive association (Büssing et al., 2009) and two a negative association (Baetz & Bowen, 20…”
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“, spiritual growth, closeness to God, satisfaction with religious life), but not with pain-related outcomes; however, negative religious coping strategies were not associated with any of the outcomes (Bush et al. 1999).”
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“Such research generally identifies spirituality as an adaptive or coping mechanism, with many studies developing or utilising some kind of construct of ‘religious coping’ [19].”
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“In light of Bush et al.’s (1999) findings regarding distinctive effects of positive and negative religious copings on affect, it is possible that negative religious coping can be channeled through prayer.”
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“Such negative aspects – hereafter referred to as spiritual distress – can worsen the perception and processing of chronic pain [9, 14].”
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“Beyond exploring the two aspects of the relationship between pain and spirituality, one of the most crucial findings of this study was that positive forms of religious coping were related to significantly higher levels of positive affect and more positive spiritual and religious outcomes [ 22 ].”
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“Bush et al. (1999) found that among a sample of patients from a pain management clinic, positive religious coping predicted positive psychological outcomes.”
Glaube, Hoffnung und Schmerz
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“…caso da dor crónica – onde se verificou uma diminuição da percepção da dor e, consequentemente, uma melhoria da qualidade de vida (Hood et al., 2009; Bush et al., 1999) – e do cancro, através da confiança no controlo de Deus sobre os acontecimentos, que levaria a uma diminuição da percepção de…”
Influence of Religion and Spirituality on HIV Positive People
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“When any difficulties occur in life like ill health disasters, difficulties, loss including chronic illness like cancer, AIDS or any kind of difficult situations, individuals have reported using a wide variety of religious coping methods, such as benevolent religious appraisals, seeking support from clergy or church m…”
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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)
ORCID: Rye, Mark S.
Venue: Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Published: 1999-12
Volume: 24
Issue: 4
Pages: 249-260
ISSN: 0363-3586 (ISSN-L)
1090-0586
1573-3270
DOI: 10.1023/a:1022234913899
OpenAlex: W1770241773
Cited by: 121
References: 24
Citations by year: 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
Licence: www.springernature.com/gp/researchers/text-and-data-mining (tdm)
www.springernature.com/gp/researchers/text-and-data-mining (vor)
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 › Health Professions › Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation › 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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