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The Sense of Quality of Life and Religious Strategies of Coping with Stress in Prison Inmates

Authors: Elżbieta Talik, Bartłomiej Skowroński

Published in: Journal of Religion and Health | Issue 3/2018

Abstract

The aim of the presented research was to analyze differences in religious strategies of coping with stress in a group of prison inmates characterized by different levels of the sense of quality of life—general, psychophysical, psychosocial, personal, and metaphysical. The participants were 390 males, aged 19–68 years, serving sentences in prisons in Poland. The measures used were the Sense of Quality of Life Questionnaire by M. Straś-Romanowska and K. I. Pargament’s RCOPE Questionnaire. As expected, individuals with a high sense of quality of life—both general and pertaining to specific dimensions—more often chose positive religious strategies, whereas participants with a low sense of quality of life more often chose negative strategies. The exception was the metaphysical aspect of the quality of life: individuals with a high intensity of this dimension more often chose some of the positive as well as negative religious strategies.

The tables below illustrate significant statistical differences only, without showing nonsignificant relationships.

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Title: The Sense of Quality of Life and Religious Strategies of Coping with Stress in Prison Inmates
Authors: Elżbieta Talik
Bartłomiej Skowroński
Publication date: 01-06-2018
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: Journal of Religion and Health / Issue 3/2018
Print ISSN: 0022-4197
Electronic ISSN: 1573-6571
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10943-017-0455-4

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