The impact of religious involvement on the relationship between religious orientation and religious coping

ABSTRACT

This study explores the relationships among religious orientation, religious involvement, and religious coping among university students in mainland China. The AUIES-12, the religious involvement scale, and the brief RCOPE were administered to 977 undergraduate students from one comprehensive university. Results showed that: (1) religious orientation significantly predicted religious coping; (2) religious involvement significantly predicted religious coping; and, (3) religious involvement mediated the relationships between religious orientation and religious coping. The contributions, limitations and implications of this research are discussed.

KEYWORDS:

• Religious orientation
• religious involvement
• religious coping
• mediating

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

Additional information

Funding

This manuscript was sponsored by the Social Science Planning Fund Program of Shandong Province (No. 18CLSJ03), the Shandong University Humanities and Social Science Youth Team Project [NO. IFYT18011], and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (NO. CCNU19HQ007).

Notes on contributors

Xiaozhong Hu

Xiaozhong Hu, Associate Professor. His major research areas are religion education and Buddhist history.

Sanyin Cheng

Sanyin Cheng, Associate Professor. Her major research areas are educational psychology and special education.