The Relationship Between Parent-Child Collaboration and Religious Coping in Adult Children.

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Religious coping refers to the ways in which individuals utilize religious faith to cope with life struggles. Previous research identified various approaches to religious coping and found that collaborative religious coping is particularly beneficial (Pargament, 1990). Religious/spiritual struggles refer to difficulties associated with an individual’s religious and/or spiritual experience. Previous research found that these struggles were related to depression, anxiety, happiness, and life-satisfaction (Abu-Raiya et al., 2015). Finally, collaborative religious coping has been found to be beneficial for addressing religious/spiritual struggles (Wilt et al., 2019). Because most of the previous research utilized primarily participants who are not Orthodox Jews, this study tested their findings in a primarily Orthodox Jewish sample. Furthermore, this study sought to determine if parent-child problem-solving in an individual’s childhood is related to their adult religious coping. Utilizing a sample of 94 Jewish individuals, results were consistent with earlier research – significant relationships between religious/spiritual struggles and depression, anxiety, happiness, and life satisfaction, and significant relationships between collaborative religious coping and spiritual growth and struggle resolution. Additionally, this analysis found a significant relationship between passive deferral in childhood and passive religious deferral. However, no relationship between parent-child collaboration and collaborative religious coping was found. These results have implications for religious people, mental health providers working with Orthodox Jews, parents, and, potentially, corporate leaders.Keywords: religious coping, religious/spiritual struggles, collaborative religious coping, parenting, mobile workers, orthodox jews.