TITLE:
Stress Coping Attitudes Based on Perceived Religiousness and Received Religious Education
AUTHORS:
Erkan Kavas
KEYWORDS:
Perceived Religiousness, Stress, Coping with Stress and Attitudes
JOURNAL NAME:
Psychology,
Vol.7 No.3,
March
28,
2016
ABSTRACT:
This study was carried out to determine
whether stress coping attitudes (SCA) change according to age, gender,
education, income status, level of religious knowledge, perceived religiousness
and the resources where the individuals rooted their religious educations. The
study was conducted on 869 participants, aged 15 and over, living in Denizli
province. As the data collection tool “Stress Coping Inventory” was used and
for demographic information of the participants, “Personal Information form”
was used. Stress coping attitudes: it has been found that stress coping
attitudes do not vary according to their gender and where they received their
religious education whether from Quran Course, in the family, from a Mousque
Teacher, at the course of Teaching Religion Moral, Religious Vocational High
School and/or from other sources of religious education but they vary according
to Age, Education, Religious Knowledge, Perceived Level of Religiosity,
Religious Education and Religious Education received from Religious Books.