MANIFESTATIONS OF COPING STRATEGIES IN RELIGIOUS
PEOPLE
Diyora Abduganiyeva
1
Tashkent University of Applied Sciences, Gavhar Str. 1, Tashkent 100149, Uzbekistan
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10462602
Keywords:
Stress, stress tolerance, personality adaptation, students, learning loads, coping strategies, classification,
religious coping.
Abstract:
This paper discusses stress, stress resilience, characteristics of stress manifestations in students, factors that
cause it, coping strategies and concepts of religious coping. It also analyses the research in the field of stress
studies, ways to improve stress resilience in university students and current research directions, methods that
can be applied in this field.
1 INTRODUCTION
Modern social psychology pays more and more
attention to strategies of behavior in conflict,
stressful, anxiety-inducing situations. Firstly, this is
due to the fact that a person is inseparably connected
with social conditions; practically everyone faces
crises and develops a certain strategy to overcome it.
Interest in such strategies is relatively recent. Despite
this, a scientific approach to coping strategies has
already been formed [6].
Throughout life, every person faces situations that
are subjectively experienced as difficult and
disruptive to the usual course of life. Experiencing
such situations often changes a person's perception of
the surrounding world and his or her place in it [4].
Individual behavior aimed at overcoming life
difficulties is studied in the framework of coping
behaviour in foreign psychology (Lazarus R.,
Folkman S., Frydenberg E., Hobfall S., Endler N.)
and coping behaviour in Russian psychology
(Antsiferova L.I., Bodrov V.A., Kryukova T.L., Libin
A.A., Nikolskaya I.M.)[7].
Regardless of what worldview position a person
takes, the theist or atheist position, God - religion, as
a cultural and psychological phenomenon, occupies a
certain place in his life. The fact is that for tens, or
maybe hundreds of thousands of years, religion has
had an enormous influence on the phylogeny of
humankind and the ontogeny of an individual. This
state of affairs is common in the history of formation
of all peoples and cultures [3].
Therefore, despite the global changes in the
consciousness of people for the last, even if it is a
hundred years, this phenomenon can hardly be
considered a dying out socio-psychological rudiment
[5]. After all, religion, in addition to social, economic
and political reasons, has deep psychological roots. In
this regard, religiosity as an integral phenomenon of
the internal and external world of a person requires a
detailed study in order to determine the objective
influence on individual characteristics and
personality development.
Religious coping - turning to religion when
experiencing life difficulties and seeking social
support in a group of believers. This type of coping
includes internal (with the help of one's own system
of values, beliefs, intentions and actions), horizontal
(based on the connection between people due to their
common identity in the community of fellow
believers) and vertical (carried out due to the
relationship between a person and the Creator) coping
[1]. Religious coping is an adaptive variant in the
cognitive sphere (engages forms of thinking aimed at
evaluating difficulties in comparison with other life
events) [2].
2 MATERIALS AND METHODS
Students of the Tashkent Medical Academy and
the International Islamic Academy of Uzbekistan
were chosen as respondents for studying this issue.
The experiment was conducted in the following
stages:
- INTERVIEW
Students were interviewed to find out how to cope
with stress;
- OBSERVATION
Coping strategies of students in the learning
process were observed;
- TEST
G. Eysenck's questionnaire "Diagnostic of the
assessment of mental states";
"Coping strategy indicator" by D. Amirkhan;
C. Carver, M. Shaver and J. Weintraub "Stress
management research".
- DISCUSSION
A questionnaire on religious factors that can be
used as a coping strategy for stress.
The method of mathematical statistics (Pearson's
criterion) was used to determine the validity and
reliability of the empirical materials obtained in the
study.
Table 1.
Psychological analysis of the technique aimed at
diagnosing the assessment of mental (psychic) states
(TMA)
Scales
Anxiety
Frustration
Aggressive-
ness
Rigidity
Anxiety
1
0,790**
0,452*
0,717**
Frustration
1
0,246
0,729**
Aggressive-
ness
1
0,429*
Rigidity
1
*p<0.05; **p<0.01
It is appropriate to interpret the correlation results
in accordance with the empirical results of the
subjects of the TMA education study. In the subjects,
the increase of "Anxiety" in a person in terms of
mental state is a clear reflection of "Frustration"
(r=0.790, p<0.01), increased aggression (r=0.452,
p<0.05), increased rigidity effect (r=0.717, p<0.01).
These conditions show that anxiety does increase the
negative value of a person's mental state. As a result,
it is difficult for a person to realise his needs, it is
difficult for him to organise his activities, to focus on
specific goals and objects, to make a decision, to
change his opinion.
Increased frustration in the subjects also led to an
increase in rigidity (p = 0.729, p < 0.01). Frustration
leaves individuals helpless to realise their potential.
As a result, they become distracted and unable to
focus on their work. Thoughts harden and are difficult
to change.
Another high coefficient of correlation analysis
between the analyzed mental states was observed
between "Aggressiveness" and "Rigidity". Increased
"Aggressiveness" leads to increased personality
rigidity (r = 0.429, p < 0.05). Therefore, in our
individuals, the original item "If you get angry, you
will go crazy" is reflected in the results of our
research.
According to the correlation analysis of mental
states, the formation of high negative tones in all of
them ensures the strengthening of negative states in
other mental states.
Table 2.
Psychological analysis of the technique aimed at
diagnosing the assessment of mental (psychic) states
(IIAU)
Scales
Anxiety
Frustration
Aggressive-
ness
Rigidity
Anxiety
1
0,496**
0,358*
0,636**
Frustration
1
0,554**
0,634**
Aggressive-
ness
1
0,522**
Rigidity
1
*p<0.05; **p<0.01
According to the empirical results of educational
research topics of the International Islamic Academy
of Uzbekistan, the results of correlation can be
appropriately interpreted as follows. In the subjects,
the increase in the "perturbation" of personality
according to the indicators of mental state is a clear
reflection of "frustration" (r=0.496, p<0.01),
increased
aggressiveness
(r=0.358,
p<0.05),
increased effect of rigidity (r=0.636, p<0.01). It turns
out that anxiety can actually increase the negative
effect of a person's mental state. As a result, it is
difficult for a person to realise his needs, it is difficult
for him to organise his activity, to focus on specific
goals and objects, to make a decision, to change his
opinion.
Increased frustration in the subjects led to a
significant increase in aggression (r=0.554, p<0.01)
and rigidity (r=0.634, p<0.01). Frustration leaves
individuals helpless to realise their potential. As a
result, they become distracted and unable to focus on
their work. Thoughts harden and are difficult to
change.
Another high coefficient of correlation analysis
between the analyzed mental states was observed
between "Aggressiveness" and "Rigidity". Increased
"Aggressiveness" leads to increased personality
rigidity (r=0.522, p<0.05). Aggression can cause a
person to lose control over his/her emotions.
According to the correlation analysis of mental
states, the formation of high negative tones in all of
them provides strengthening of negative states in the
rest of mental states.
Table 3.
Psychological analysis of the Coping Strategies
Indicators (TMA)
Scales
Problem
solving
Seeking
social support
Avoidance
from
the problem
Problem solving
1
0,541*
0,358
Seeking social
support
1
0,367
Avoidance from
the problem
1
*p<0.05
It is appropriate to interpret the correlation results in
accordance with the empirical results of the subjects of the
TMA education study. According to the subjects' coping
strategies, an increase in the number of "problem solving"
in the individual leads to an increase in "seeking social
help" (r=0.541, p<0.05). In problem solving, an individual
relies on society and expects help from it. There are many
factors that can contribute to social support.
Table 4.
Psychological analysis of the Coping Strategies
Indicators (IIAU)
Scales
Problem
solving
Seeking
social support
Avoidance
from
the problem
Problem solving
1
0,640**
0,307
Seeking social
support
1
0,239
Avoidance from
the problem
1
**p<0.01
According to empirical results of educational
research topics of the International Islamic Academy
of Uzbekistan, it is appropriate to interpret the results
of correlation as follows. According to the tested
coping-strategies, the increase in the number of
"problem solving" in an individual was more
pronounced in "seeking social help" (r=0.640,
p<0.01). In problem solving, an individual relies on
society and expects help from it. There are many
factors that can contribute to social support.
CONCLUSIONS
it was found during our study that the factor of
religion has a significant impact on the realization of
coping strategies. At the same time, the following
situation is observed in the interuniversity
classification. Although the level of religious
attraction of students of Tashkent Medical Academy
did not give significant results, it was noticed that
students of the International Islamic Academy of
Uzbekistan are oriented towards a positive approach
to coping with stress.
Analysis of the results of the inter-university
study showed that students of the Tashkent Medical
Academy resort to various sedatives to cope with
stress. When analysing the results of the study of
students of the International Islamic Academy of
Uzbekistan, it is impossible to calculate it because no
one chose questions of such a scale.
Empirical research has shown that people prone to
stress more often resort to social factors when
implementing coping strategies. It turned out that the
more they solve a problem, the more they seek social
help.
The fact that religious students have a higher
choice of religion in coping with stress than other
university students was further proven. That is,
Religious Studies students had a higher level of
religious affiliation in coping with stress because of
their higher level of religious education.
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