المؤلفون: Daniel H. Grossoehme, C. Jeffrey Jacobson, Michael Seid, Rhonda VanDyke, Judith R. Ragsdale, Sian Cotton

المصدر: Mental Health, Religion & Culture. 14:423-432

مصطلحات موضوعية: Coping (psychology), Hospital setting, media_common.quotation_subject, Stressor, Cognition, Prayer, Psychiatry and Mental health, Clinical Psychology, Chapel, Psychology, Social psychology, computer, computer.programming_language, media_common

الوصف: Hospitalised children represent a threatened future to parents. Such stressors call forth people's coping styles. Some individuals cope religiously or spiritually, and religious coping through prayer may be utilised. A sample of prayers written in a paediatric hospital chapel was coded by styles of religious coping evident within them. Styles associated with coping to gain control of their situation and with coping by seeking comfort from God were present. Seeking to cope for gaining control of a situation was more common than seeking comfort from God during the event. Written prayers did not contain evidence of coping by making meaning. Regression analysis showed that the probability of writing a prayer to gain control decreased over time and a trend towards increasing probability of writing a prayer expressing coping by seeking God's comfort. Clinical implications are discussed. Future research should include a larger sample and cognitive interviews with prayer writers.

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https://doi.org/10.1080/13674671003762693