Initial Evidence for a Brief Measure of Buddhist Coping in the United States

• Published in: The International journal for the psychology of religion Vol. 24; no. 3; pp. 215 - 227
• Main Authors: Phillips, Russell E., Cheng, Clara M., Oemig-Dworsky, Carmen
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Philadelphia Routledge 03.07.2014; Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
• Subjects: Adaptation; Buddhism; Confirmatory factor analysis; Construct validity; Coping; Discriminant analysis; Goals; Religion & psychology; Religions; Short forms; Validation studies; United States > US

Although the field of spiritual coping has greatly expanded in recent years, there is no short scale of Buddhist coping as there is for the Abrahamic religions. The goal of the present study is to create the Brief BCOPE, a 15-item scale of Buddhist coping based on a study of 860 Buddhist participant...