The Brief RCOPE: Current psychometric status of a short measure of religious coping

Religions

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 51-76

  Pargament, Kenneth ^a   Feuille, Margaret ^a   Burdzy, Donna ^a  

^a BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brief RCOPE; RCOPE; Religious coping; Religious struggle; Spiritual coping

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856228825     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20771444     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rel2010051     Document Type: Article

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