期刊名称：International Journal of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences
印刷版ISSN：2163-1948
电子版ISSN：2163-1956
出版年度：2013
卷号：3
期号：6
页码：196-205
DOI：10.5923/j.ijpbs.20130306.09
语种：English
出版社：Scientific & Academic Publishing Co.
摘要：Coping skills are strategies that we use – cognitively, affectively and behaviorally – in order to adaptively manage the problems that affect us. Adequate use of these coping strategies results in more effective adjustments, better levels of perceived well-being, and consequently, a greater likelihood of preserving and maintaining mental balance. Of these strategies, those that involve active coping with the problem (“approach”) are more adaptive, in contrast to those that focus on avoiding the problem. Religiosity, for its part, seems to result in better health parameters, from both somatic and strictly psychological perspectives. Furthermore, it can accompany the use of coping skills, becoming another strategy type in itself. Our study seeks to analyze the relationship between coping skills and mental and psychosomatic symptomatology, as well as examining the relationship between these factors and a person’s level of religiosity. After applying an ad hoc questionnaire (sociodemographic data), the SCL-90-R and the CRI-A, results show that subjects with greater symptomatology tend toward use of avoidance strategies. In addition, religious subjects exhibit adequate levels of health, and a more adaptive coping style, which may mitigate the negative effect of age on well-being. Further studies are needed to explore this analysis in greater depth, using a larger sample and a more detailed definition of the components that make up personal religiosity.
