Ahmadi Nader, Ahmadi Fereshteh
University of Gävle, Sweden.
Illn Crises Loss. 2017 Jul;25(3):171-199. doi: 10.1177/1054137315614513. Epub 2015 Nov 18.
In the present article, based on results from a survey study in Sweden among 2,355 cancer patients, the role of religion in coping is discussed. The survey study, in turn, was based on earlier findings from a qualitative study of cancer patients in Sweden. The purpose of the present survey study was to determine to what extent results obtained in the qualitative study can be applied to a wider population of cancer patients in Sweden. The present study shows that use of religious coping methods is infrequent among cancer patients in Sweden. Besides the two methods that are ranked in 12th and 13th place, that is, in the middle (Listening to religious music and Praying to God to make things better), the other religious coping methods receive the lowest rankings, showing how nonsignificant such methods are in coping with cancer in Sweden. However, the question of who turns to God and who is self-reliant in a critical situation is too complicated to be resolved solely in terms of the strength of individuals' religious commitments. In addition to background and situational factors, the culture in which the individual was socialized is an important factor. Regarding the influence of background variables, the present results show that , and played an important role in almost all of the religious coping methods our respondents used. In general, people in the oldest age-group, women, and people raised in places with 20,000 or fewer residents had a higher average use of religious coping methods than did younger people, men, and those raised in larger towns.
在本文中，基于瑞典对2355名癌症患者的一项调查研究结果，探讨了宗教在应对过程中的作用。反过来，这项调查研究又是基于瑞典对癌症患者的一项定性研究的早期发现。本次调查研究的目的是确定定性研究中获得的结果在多大程度上可以应用于瑞典更广泛的癌症患者群体。本研究表明，瑞典癌症患者很少使用宗教应对方法。除了排在第12位和第13位的两种方法，即处于中间位置的（听宗教音乐和向上帝祈祷以求情况好转），其他宗教应对方法的排名最低，这表明这些方法在瑞典应对癌症方面是多么微不足道。然而，在危急情况下谁求助于上帝以及谁自力更生的问题过于复杂，无法仅根据个人宗教信仰的强度来解决。除了背景和情境因素外，个人成长所处的文化也是一个重要因素。关于背景变量的影响，目前的结果表明， ，以及 在我们的受访者使用的几乎所有宗教应对方法中都发挥了重要作用。一般来说，年龄最大的年龄组、女性以及在居民人数为2万或更少的地方长大的人，宗教应对方法的平均使用率高于年轻人、男性以及在较大城镇长大的人。
