Brief Religious Coping Scale

The Brief Religious Coping Scale (Brief RCOPE) is a 14-item self-report instrument that assesses two coping strategies, i.e., positive religious coping and negative religious coping. The Brief RCOPE was developed to evaluate the relationship between religion and health outcomes. The positive religious coping items are designed to measure coping strategies that reflect a collaborative relationship with God, spiritual connection, and religious support seeking. In contrast, the negative religious coping subscale reflects maladaptive coping strategies such as spiritual discontent and the perception of being punished by God.

The Brief RCOPE is designed to be brief, easy to use, and suitable for people with different religious backgrounds. Many studies have supported the reliability and validity of the Brief RCOPE across different populations. For instance, internal consistency coefficients for the positive and negative subscales of the Brief RCOPE are generally high and range between 0.70 and 0.95 across different studies. Furthermore, test-retest reliabilities of the subscales over a 2- to 6-week intervals are strong and range from 0.65 to 0.78.

Validation studies have demonstrated that the Brief RCOPE subscales have strong correlations with other measures of religious coping, such as the full-length RCOPE, and spiritual well-being, including purpose in life, and stress-coping methods, such as problem-solving, support seeking, and avoidance. Additionally, positive religious coping has been inversely associated with negative health outcomes, such as depression, anxiety, and physical illness, while negative religious coping has been positively associated with negative health outcomes.

In conclusion, the Brief Religious Coping Scale is a reliable and valid instrument that has been widely used to measure positive and negative religious coping. The Brief RCOPE has been shown to have strong psychometric properties across different populations and has been useful in evaluating the relationship between religious coping and health outcomes.

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