Predictive Relationships between Self-Recovery Power at Birth, Psychological Resilience and Religious Coping

Abstract

This study is a field study that aims to examine the relationship between recovery strength, psychological resilience and religious coping among women in labor. The study is based on data collected in November-January 2020-2021. The sample consists of 921 women residing in different cities of Türkiye as a result of the announcement made using social media. In the study, demographic information form and self-recovery power, psychological resilience and religious coping scales were used. AMOS Structural Equation modeling was used to analyze the data. According to the study, it was seen that religious coping positively affected the power of self-recovery in women. In addition, it was found that the power of self-recovery also positively affected psychological resilience.

Keywords

• Self-recovery power
• Psychological resilience
• Religious coping

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