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Arquivos Brasileiros de Psicologia

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Abstract

VEIT, Carina Maria  and  CASTRO, Elisa Kern de. Spiritual/religious coping in breast cancer women. Arq. bras. psicol. [online]. 2013, vol.65, n.3, pp. 421-435. ISSN 1809-5267.

The relationship between religious/spiritual coping (RSC) was investigated, along with sociodemographic, clinical and religious variables, and the subjective perception of who God in 83 women with breast cancer, who answered a sociodemographic and clinical data and the RSC scale. The level of study variable showed significant and negative correlation with factor Negative meaning reappraisal, indicating that greater the disease is understood like a bad thing or personal punishment, less years of study had women. Women who saw God as Presence or Condition for existence/survival showed greater use of Positive RSC over negative RSC, and those who perceived God as Condition for existence/survival or Being/strength/superior power showed significantly higher averages in Dissatisfaction with the institutional other factor. Women used more positive than negative RSC to cope with the stress caused by breast cancer.

Keywords : Religious [spiritual coping]; Coping; Mammary neoplasm; Spirituality; Religion.

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