Ravanshenasi Wa Din, Volume 8, Issue 1, No 29, Year 2025 , Pages 41-62

    The Strategies towards Positive and Negative Religious Cope: Psychoanalysis of the scale of RCOPE among Iranian Students

    Article Type: 
    Research
    Writers:
    ✍️ Farzaneh Davud Vandi / MA student of educational psychology, Azad central University of Tehran / f.davoodvandi@gmail.com
    Omid Shokri / Assistant professor of psychology department, Shahid Beheshti University / OSHOKRI@yahoo.com
    Pages: 41-62 Receive Date: 2025/03/29 Accept Date: 2025/03/29
    Abstract: 
    The present research aims to investigate the psychological scale of religious cope among Iranian students (male and female). 355 university students (155 males and 200 females) were asked to fill out a Persian version of RCOPE. The statistical procedure of hierarchical factor analysis was used to determine the factorial validity of RCOPE. The internal consistency of RCOPE was examined by Cronbach Alpha coefficients. An analysis of the main components through Oblimin rotation show that RCOPE consists of two strategies towards positive and negative religious cope. The results of factor analysis of positive strategies towards religious cope have yielded seven factors, including religious purification and seeking divine intercession, spiritual aid, active religious submission, fair religious reassessment, spiritual ties and religious orientation, referring to religious authorities or those sharing the same belief and determining the scope of religious activities. The results of factor analysis of the strategies towards negative religious cope indicate five factors, including reassessment based on the idea of God as a punisher, Satan-based reassessment, spiritual dissatisfaction, passive religious submission and inter-individual religious dissatisfaction acquired by experience.
    Keywords: 
    strategies towards positive and negative religious cope
    religious cope scale
    psychological characteristics
    چکیده و کلیدواژه فارسی (Persian)
    Title :راهبردهای مقابله‌ی مذهبی مثبت و منفی: تحلیل روان سنجی مقیاس مقابله‌ی مذهبی در بین دانشجویان ایرانی
    Abstract: 
    این مقاله، با هدف آزمون روان سنجِی مقیاس مقابله‌ی مذهبی در گروهی از دانشجویان دختر و پسر ایرانی انجام شد. 355 دانشجو (155 پسر و 200 دختر)، به نسخه‌ی فارسی مقیاس مقابله مذهبی پاسخ دادند. برای تعیین روایی عاملی RCOPE، از روش آماری تحلیل عامل سلسله مراتبی و برای بررسی همسانی درونی RCOPE، از ضرایب آلفای کرونباخ استفاده شد. نتایج تحلیل مؤلفه های اصلی با استفاده از چرخش اوبلیمین، نشان داد که RCOPE از دو بْعد راهبردهای مقابله‌ی مذهبی مثبت و منفی تشکیل شده است. نتایج تحلیل عاملی راهبردهای مقابله‌ی مذهبی مثبت، از الگوی هفت عاملی شامل، تطهیر مذهبی و تقاضای شفاعت الهی، کمک معنوی، تسلیم مذهبی فعالانه، بازارزیابی مذهبی خیرخواهانه، پیوند معنوی و جهت گیری مذهبی، جست وجوی حمایت از سوی افراد مطلع در دین یا افراد هم  عقیده و تعیین محدوده‌ی فعالیت های مذهبی و نتایج تحلیل عاملی راهبردهای مقابله‌ی مذهبی منفی، از الگوی پنج عاملی شامل بازارزیابی مبتنی بر خداوند کیفر کننده، بازارزیابی شیطان محور، نارضایتی معنوی، واگذاری مذهبی منفعلانه و نارضایتی مذهبی بین فردی به طور تجربی حکایت کرد.
    Keywords: 
    راهبردهای مقابله مذهبی مثبت و منفی
    مقیاس مقابله مذهبی
    مشخصه های روان سنجی
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