The Relationship of Spiritual Coping with Resilience and Perceived Stress: Validation of the Dutch Spiritual Coping Questionnaire

Year 2019, Volume: 4 Issue: 2, 93 - 108, 30.06.2019

Lilian Jans-beken

Abstract

The aim of this study is to translate and validate the Spiritual Coping Questionnaire in Dutch (SCQ-nl), compare this questionnaire with a religious coping questionnaire, and assess the levels of religious and spiritual coping in association to resilience and perceived stress because these are important determinants in mental health issues. The Dutch-speaking respondents (N = 651, Mage = 45, SDage = 14, range = 18-80) answered the SCQ, Brief RCOPE, Perceived Stress Scale, and Brief Resilience Scale. Validation of the SCQ shows it to be a reliable and valid questionnaire for assessing positive and negative spiritual coping in Dutch-speaking individuals. Although the positive and negative religious coping scales are associated with positive and negative spiritual coping questionnaires, religious coping was not predictive of perceived stress or resilience. Multiple regression analyses demonstrate positive spiritual coping to be associated with lower perceived stress and higher resilience levels and negative spiritual coping to be associated with higher perceived stress and lower resilience levels in Dutch-speaking individuals. The outcome of this study is that the SCQ-nl is a valid and reliable measure for assessing positive and negative spiritual coping in scientific psychological research and descriptively in clinical practice.

Keywords

Positive spiritual coping, Negative spiritual coping, Psychopathology, Flourishing, Optimal functioning

Manevi Başa Çıkmanın Psikolojik Dayanıklılık ve Algılanan Stresle İlişkisi: Manevi Başa Çıkma Anketi Hollanda Formunun Güvenirlik ve Geçerliği

Abstract

Bu çalışmanın amacı, Manevi Başa Çıkma Anketi Hollanda Formunu (SCQ-nl) uyarlamak psikometrik özelliklerini incelemek, bu anketi bir dini başa çıkma anketi ile karşılaştırmak ve katılımcıların psikolojik dayanıklılık ve algılanan stres düzeyleri ile ilişkili olarak dini ve manevi başa çıkma seviyelerini değerlendirmektir. Bu değişkenler ruh sağlığı ile ilgili önemli belirleyicilerdir. Hollandaca konuşan katılımcılar (N = 651, yaş ortalaması = 45, ss = 14, yaş aralığı = 18-80) SCQ-nl anketini, Kısa Dini Başa Çıkma Anketi Hollandaca Formu, Algılanan Stres Ölçeği ve Kısa Psikolojik Dayanıklılık Ölçeğini yanıtlamışlardır. SCQ’nun psikometrik incelemesi, bu ölçeğin Hollandaca konuşan bireylerde pozitif ve negatif manevi başa çıkmanın ölçülmesinde güvenilir ve geçerli bir anket olduğunu göstermektedir. Pozitif ve negatif dini başa çıkma ölçekleri, pozitif ve negatif manevi başa çıkma anketleriyle ilişkili olsa da, dini başa çıkma algılanan stres ya da psikolojik dayanıklılığı yordamadığı görülmüştür. Çoklu regresyon analizleri, Hollandaca konuşan bireylerde pozitif manevi başa çıkmanın düşük algılanan stres ve daha yüksek psikolojik dayanıklılık düzeyleri ile ilişkili olduğunu; olumsuz manevi başa çıkmanın ise daha yüksek algılanan stres ve daha düşük psikolojik dayanıklılık düzeyleri ile ilişkili olduğunu göstermiştir. Bu çalışmanın sonuçları, SCQ-nl’nin bilimsel psikolojik araştırmalarda ve betimsel olarak klinik uygulamalarda pozitif ve negatif manevi başa çıkmanın değerlendirilmesi için geçerli ve güvenilir bir ölçek olduğunu göstermektedir.

Keywords

Pozitif manevi başa çıkma, Negatif manevi başa çıkma, Psikopatoloji, İyi Oluş, Optimum işlevsellik

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