Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Religion and Mental Health, ICRMH 2019, 18 - 19 September 2019, Jakarta, Indonesia

Research Article

Does the Religious Coping has an Effect on Perceived Stress?

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.18-9-2019.2293453,
        author={Muhamad Nanang Suprayogi and Rodiah  Aljufri},
        title={Does the Religious Coping has an Effect on Perceived Stress?},
        proceedings={Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Religion and Mental Health, ICRMH 2019, 18 - 19 September 2019, Jakarta, Indonesia},
        publisher={EAI},
        proceedings_a={ICRMH},
        year={2020},
        month={3},
        keywords={religious coping stress human life problem},
        doi={10.4108/eai.18-9-2019.2293453}
    }
    
  • Muhamad Nanang Suprayogi
    Rodiah Aljufri
    Year: 2020
    Does the Religious Coping has an Effect on Perceived Stress?
    ICRMH
    EAI
    DOI: 10.4108/eai.18-9-2019.2293453
Muhamad Nanang Suprayogi1,*, Rodiah Aljufri1
  • 1: Department of Psychology, Faculty of Humanity, Bina Nusantara University, Jakarta
*Contact email: msuprayogi@binus.edu

Abstract

There are various coping stress strategies, one of the oftenly used coping stress strategy in Indonesia is religoius coping. The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of religious coping on reducing stress. The study applied a quantitative method using multiple regression analysis. The current study involved 354 participants in the congregation of one of the religious leader in Indonesia, named Halimah Alaydrus. The results of this study revealed that there is a significant effect of religious coping on reducing stress (r square = 0.157, sig. < 0.001). As to the finding of this study, it is recommended to apply the religious coping in releasing the stress.