Abstract
Background: Coping is a multifactorial and individual process related to responding to stressful situations, such as being a caregiver of a relative with health conditions. Spiritual/religious coping is an important internal resource used by individuals enduring stressful situations. The 14-item Brief RCOPE is a widely used instrument but not available in European Portuguese. Objective: To translate, adapt and validate the 14-item Brief RCOPE in Portuguese caregivers of an adult relative with a health condition. Method: The methodological guideline provided by Sousa and Rojjanasrirat was used to examine the psychometric properties of the Brief RCOPE. Results: The linguistic and conceptual equivalence of the scale was determined. The internal consistency was acceptable (Cronbach’s α = 0.86). The Principal Axis Factor (PAF) analysis with varimax rotation identified two factors made up of 13 items, and one item was excluded from the scale. Conclusion: The European Portuguese version of the Brief RCOPE is a reliable and valid measure for assessing religious coping of family caregivers of adults with health conditions.
Highlights
Coping is a multifactorial and individual process that one experience when responding to situations that are stressful (Lazarus and Folkman 1984; Yang 2018)
The subscale Turning to religion is part of the COPE inventory and has been used broadly to measure religious coping (Krägeloh 2011)
Religious coping “occurs when a stressor related to a sacred goal arises or when people call upon a coping method they view as sacred in response to a stressor” (Cummings and Pargament 2010, p. 30)
Summary
Coping is a multifactorial and individual process that one experience when responding to situations that are stressful (Lazarus and Folkman 1984; Yang 2018). Religious coping “occurs when a stressor related to a sacred goal arises or when people call upon a coping method they view as sacred in response to a stressor” Spiritual coping strategies may include religious and non-religious strategies. In both spiritual and religious coping, it is possible to identify positive and negative patterns when dealing with a stressor (Pargament et al 2011). Positive spiritual/religious coping methods are adaptative and reflect a favorable relationship with whatever is considered sacred by the individual, whereas negative spiritual/religious coping methods manifest struggle with the sacred (Pargament et al 2011)
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