Religious coping and general mental health in practising and nonpractising catholics

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to determine the relationship between cope, in particular religious coping and the general mental health assessment of one's own mental health, depending on involvement in religious practices. The study involved 135 members of the Catholic Church (112 women and 23 men), including 60 practicing believer and 75 non-practicing. The Brief R Cope, Mini Cope and GHQ-30 were used. The groups did not differ in the assessment of their own mental health and negative religious coping with stress, but only in the group of non-practitioners a significant correlation between these dimensions was observed.Key words: coping, mental health, religious coping