Assessing the BRIEF spiritual/religious coping scale among older Brazilians

Autor(es)

Vitorino, Luciano Magalhaes ^[1] ; Low, Gail ^[2] ; Carneiro Vianna, Lucila Amaral ^[3]

Afiliação do(s) autor(es)

^[1] Fed Univ Juiz de Fora UFJF, Fac Med, Juiz De For A - Brazil

^[2] Univ Alberta, Fac Nursing, Edmonton, AB - Canada

^[3] Fed Univ Sao Paulo UNIFESP, Paulista Sch Nursing, Sao Paulo - Brazil

• Tipo de documento: Artigo Científico
• Fonte: JOURNAL OF RELIGION SPIRITUALITY & AGING; v. 30, n. 4, p. 354-370, 2018.
• Citações Web of Science: 0

Resumo

Spiritual/religious coping (SRC) is an important behavioral resource that helps people better manage physical and psychosocial challenges. Measuring SRC is particularly important in older age as this time in the life course brings many losses and changes. We assessed the psychometric properties of the 49-item BRIEF-SRC among 403 older Brazilians. Positive and negative SRC dimensions were internally consistent. Strong empirical support was found for the proposed structure of four of seven positive and all four negative sub-dimensions. More work needs to be done to assess and, ideally, further refine the positive sub-dimensions of this Brazilian behavioral scale. (AU)

• Processo FAPESP: 13/08212-7 - Qualidade de vida e coping religioso/espiritual de idosos institucionalizados e da comunidade: estudo comparativo
• Beneficiário: Lucila Amaral Carneiro Vianna
• Modalidade de apoio: Auxílio à Pesquisa - Regular