Stress Coping Attitudes Based on Perceived Religiousness and Received Religious Education

Abstract

This study was carried out to determine whether stress coping attitudes (SCA) change according to age, gender, education, income status, level of religious knowledge, perceived religiousness and the resources where the individuals rooted their religious educations. The study was conducted on 869 participants, aged 15 and over, living in Denizli province. As the data collection tool “Stress Coping Inventory” was used and for demograpic information of the participants, “Personal Information form” was used. Stress coping attitudes: it has been found that stress coping attitudes do not vary according to their gender and where they received their religious education whether from Quran Course, in the family, from a Mousque Teacher, at the course of Teaching Religion Moral, Religious Vocational High School and/or from other sources of religious education but they vary according to Age, Education, Religious Knowledge, Perceived Level of Religiosity, Religious Education and Religious Education received from Religious Books.