RESEARCH: The Effect of Religious-Spiritual Coping on Positive Attitudes of Adult Muslim Refugees From Kosovo and Bosnia

By Amy L. Ai, Christopher Peterson, Bu Huang. 2003

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Health

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Posttraumatic Growth Among Traumatized Somali Refugees in Hungary (2011, background): “Despite severe traumata and ongoing difficulties, studies examining the post-war experiences of refugees (Ai et al, 2007 ; Lev-Wiesel and Amir, 2003 ; Powell, Rosner, Butollo, Tedeschi, & Calhoun 2003 ) have found that positive aspects of mental health are also greatly significant, next to the ne”
Posttraumatic symptoms and growth of Kosovar war refugees: The influence of hope and cognitive coping (2007, background): “Furthermore, the earlier report showed a low Cronbach’s alpha for questions measuring optimism in the sample (0.46), likely due to cultural differences (Ai et al., 2003).”
Religiosity and its association with positive and negative emotions among college students from Algeria (2007, background): “An emerging body of research indicates that religiosity is positively associated with optimism and negatively with pessimism (Ai, Peterson, & Huang, 2003 ; Rudski, 2004 ; Salsman, Brown, Brechting, & Carlson, 2005 ).”
RESEARCH: "Construction of the Pakistani Religious Coping Practices Scale: Correlations With Religious Coping, Religious Orientation, and Reactions to Stress Among Muslim University Students" (2006, background): “As noted previously, Ai et al. (2003) found that Positive Religious Coping predicted greater optimism in Kosovar and Bosnian Muslim refugees.”
Religious coping among diverse religions: Commonalities and divergences. (2015, background): “Ai et al. (2003) gathered data about religiousness, war-related trauma, religious–spiritual coping (assessed by the Brief RCOPE), optimism, and hope from 138 Bosnians who fled the war in the Balkan and settled in the United States.”
Empirically based psychology of Islam: summary and critique of the literature (2011, background): “…with measures of greater well-being, two seemed especially salient in this domain: Positive religious coping (Abu-Raiya et al., 2008; Aflakseir & Coleman, 2009; Ai et al., 2003; Khan & Watson, 2006b) and intrinsic religiousness (Ghorbani & Watson, 2006; Khan & Watson, 2004; Watson et al., 2002).”
Religious coping, stress, and quality of life of Muslim university students in New Zealand (2014, background): “This is in contrast to the findings of Ai et al. (2003) who only reported a very small and almost negligible correlation between positive religious coping and religiousness.”
Gods or rituals? Relational faith, spiritual discontent, and religious practices as predictors of hope and optimism (2008, background): “Optimism is related to higher religious commitment (Dember, 2002), church attendance, self-designation as being religious or spiritual, a positive relationship with God (Mattis et al., 2004), Godmediated control (Krause, 2005), and positive religious coping (Ai et al., 2003).”