Religious Coping Style Of Muslim:Structure And Measuremen

Religious coping style is a very important concept in subjects of religion and psychology of religion in the west. We can learn that, many studies focus on religious coping style of Christian, but the studies about religious coping style are scarce.Based on literature review and personal comprehension of the concept and structure of religious coping style of Muslim, the author develop the scale of "religious coping style of Muslim", and make a probe into the situation and possible influential factors of religious coping style of China’Muslims.The main results are as follows:(1)Religious coping style of Muslim refers to all coping measures and behavior by the Muslims in the face of a variety of stressors, which contains three elements, that is, coping based on the relationship between Allah and oneself, coping based on organization and coping based on oneself. The first element refers to measures and behavior concerning with Allah by Muslim facing difficulties. The second element refers to the behavior of seeking help from organization by Muslim facing difficulties. The third element refers to relying on their own resources and efforts to cope with various difficulties.(2)The formal scale of religious coping style of Muslim consists of three dimensions and22items, namely, coping based on the relationship between Allah and oneself(9items),coping based on organization(7items) and coping based on oneself (6items).The result shows that when the test is taken again two weeks later and the overall scale’s retest reliability is.735.The overall internal consistency reliability is.924,while each subscale’s internal consistency reliability is.829and.898.The reliability and validity test prove that the main indexes of reliability and validity have met the psychometric requirements.(3)The research has set up the Norm Standard to a certain extent. The score is adopted, with50as the mean score, and10as the standard deviation. The scores are considered high if above60,and low if below40.(4)This research discusses the current situation and influential factors of634Muslims with the help of the formal scale. The results of the measurement indicate that the level of religious coping style of Muslim is above the average. The level of each dimension from highest to lowest ranges as follows:coping based on the relationship between Allah and oneself, coping based on organization and coping based on oneself. There are significant differences on variables of religious coping style of Muslim, like age, gender and education, though no significant difference of time to a Muslim and living religion is found. Datas coming from multiple regression analysis show that the two variables, educational level and gender, exert a predictive effect on religious coping style of Muslim.