The many methods of religious coping: development and initial validation of the RCOPE.

By K. Pargament, H. Koenig, L. Pérez. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 2000

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Health, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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In Clinical Psychology

1. K. Pargament
2. Crystal L. Park
3. Julie J. Exline
4. S. Joseph
5. Hisham Abu-Raiya
6. Everett L. Worthington Jr.
7. C. Ellison
8. P. Alex Linley

In Health

1. K. Pargament
2. C. Ellison
3. H. Koenig
4. Julie J. Exline
5. Hisham Abu-Raiya
6. Crystal L. Park
7. Jinwoo Lee
8. Hisham Abu Raiya

In Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

1. K. Pargament
2. C. Ellison
3. H. Koenig
4. Hisham Abu-Raiya
5. Julie J. Exline
6. N. Krause
7. Hisham Abu Raiya
8. Jinwoo Lee

Citations in the corpus

• Daily Spiritual Experiences and Psychological Well-being Among US Adults (2008, background): “Moreover, as noted earlier, some researchers have identified specific styles or modes of religious coping—i.e., the content of the ways in which individuals draw upon or experience religion or spirituality in times of trouble—that appear to yield salutary effects on psychosocial outcomes (Pargament ”
• Spiritual Struggles and Psychological Distress: Is There a Dark Side of Religion? (2010, methodology): “First, divine struggles, indicating a strained or troubled relationship with God, are assessed with two items drawn from Pargament’s Brief RCOPE (Pargament et al. 2000).”
• Religious Coping Methods as Predictors of Psychological, Physical and Spiritual Outcomes among Medically Ill Elderly Patients: A Two-year Longitudinal Study (2004, background): “A more complete description of the measure along with evidence of reliability and validity can be found elsewhere (Koenig, Pargament, & Nielsen, 1998; Pargament et al., 2000).”
• Measuring Multiple Dimensions of Religion and Spirituality for Health Research (2003, methodology): “The items we propose assess (1) positive religious coping reflective of benevolent religious methods of understanding and dealing with life stressors and (2) negative religious coping reflective of religious struggle and are taken from Pargament et al. (1998) and Pargament, Koenig, and Perez (2000).”
• The relationship of religious coping and spirituality to adjustment and psychological distress in urban early adolescents (2009, background): “The Brief RCOPE has demonstrated adequate internal consistency and construct validity in previous studies (Pargament et al., 1998; Pargament et al., 2000).”
• Hope and well-being in vulnerable contexts during the COVID-19 pandemic: does religious coping matter? (2020, methodology): “Participants completed the Brief RCOPE (Pargament et al., 1998, 2000), a 14-item measure that captures positive and negative religious coping strategies (seven items each) in response to a negative event.”