title: Religious and Psychological Implications of Positive and Negative Religious Coping in Iran.
abstract: This study examined the religious and psychological implications of religious coping in Iran. University students (N = 224) responded to the Brief Positive and Negative Religious Coping Scales along with measures of Religious Orientation, Integrative Self-Knowledge, Self-Control, Mindfulness, Self-Compassion, Self-Esteem, Guilt, Shame, and Self-Criticism. As in previous research elsewhere, Positive Religious Coping was stronger on average than Negative Religious Coping, and Positive and Negative Religious Coping predicted adjustment and maladjustment, respectively, In addition, this study demonstrated that direct relationships between Positive and Negative Religious Coping appeared to be reliable in Iran; that Positive Religious Copings was broadly compatible with, and Negative Religious Coping was largely irrelevant to, Iranian religious motivations; and that Negative Religious Coping obscured linkages of Positive Religious Coping with religious and psychological adjustment.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.
authors.forename: Nima
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Ghorbani
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, #2803, 350 Holt Hall - 615 McCallie Avenue, Chattanooga, TN, 37403, USA. paul-watson@utc.edu.
authors.forename: P J
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: Watson
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.
authors.forename: Sahar
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Tahbaz
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA.
authors.forename: Zhuo Job
authors.initials: ZJ
authors.lastname: Chen
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007492:Iran; D008297:Male; D012069:Religion and Psychology; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000523:psychology*; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Iran; Positive and Negative Religious Coping; Psychological adjustment; Religious orientations; Self-regulation