The Relationship Between Religious Identity and Preferred Coping Strategies: An Examination of the Relative Importance of Interpersonal and Intrapersonal Coping in Muslim and Christian Faiths

Review of General Psychology

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 365-381

  Fischer, Peter ^a   Ai, Amy L ^b   Aydin, Nilüfer ^c   Frey, Dieter ^c   Haslam, S Alexander ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Collectivism; Coping; Individualism; Religion; Social identity

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650277998     PISSN: 10892680     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0021624     Document Type: Article

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