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Psychometric Evaluation of the Brief Religious Coping Scale for Cancer Patients

Document Type : Scientific Research

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1 Assistant professor, Shahid Beheshti University,Tehran,Iran.

2 M. A. in Psychology,Roozbeh Hospital

3 Postgraduate of clinical psychology,Alzahra University

Abstract

Objective: The main purpose of the present study was to investigate psychometric properties of the Brief Religious Coping Scale (BRCS, Pargament, Koenig & Perez, 2000) among male and female cancer patients. 155 cancer patients (119 female, 36 male) completed the Brief Religious Coping Scale. Method: The exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis methods and internal consistency coefficients were used to compute the BRCS's factorial validity and reliability, respectively. Results: The results of principal component analysis (PC) with varimax rotation replicated 2-factor structure of positive and negative religious coping strategies for cancer patients. Goodness-of-fit indices of confirmatory factor analysis confirmed the 2 extracted factors. Internal consistency coefficients for positive and negative religious coping strategies were 0/85 and 0/80, respectively. Conclusion: In sum, BRCS appears to be a good instrument that does what it was intended to do: assess religious methods of coping in an efficient, psychometrically sound, and theoretically meaningful manner

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Health Psychology
Volume 4, Issue 13 - Serial Number 13
February 2015
Pages 113-126
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