Other Religious/Spiritual Coping Strategies
| Religious/Spiritual Coping Strategy | Number of Respondents (%) | Illustrative Quotes* |
|---|---|---|
| 7. Spiritual social support | 18 (72%) | • My mom and a lot of prayer groups have been praying for me. It feels good to have others pray for me because it stinks being in the hospital. I think it helps, but I don’t know how. |
| • I pray to God that I hope my grandma feels better from her surgery. | ||
| • I am a Protestant. | ||
| • If you were poor, God could encourage someone else to bring you food or money or clothes. | ||
| • I don’t know if anyone is praying for me, but if they were it would feel good because they could find a cure for something! | ||
| 8. Ritual response | 9 (39%) | • I go to church to feel better when I’m sick. |
| • Our Father who art in heaven, halleluiahs be thy name, thy kingdom comes, I will be done, as if it is in heaven… | ||
| 9. Benevolent religious/spiritual reappraisal | 6 (26%) | • God allows me to have this illness so I can be challenged more in this life. I will be more happy because I am more fulfilled. Having to cope with CF will allow me to progress further in my next life. |
| • God can help people. He can heal them. God doesn’t always help, though; He does the best He can. You say a prayer, and if God can help you, He’ll try and help you, and then, He can heal you of something. | ||
| • He helps me figure stuff out, like understand when He cannot heal you. | ||
| 10. Punishing religious/spiritual reappraisal | 4 (17%) | • I know I’ve sinned a lot. God don’t like it. I don’t know if He punishes. |
| • God gets mad at people if they’re doing something wrong that they aren’t supposed to be doing, but He still loves them. | ||
| 11. Discontent with God or congregation | 2 (9%) | • God’s going down in the room so He can make me feel better, but it didn’t work. |
↵* Illustrative quotes are slightly paraphrased to increase readability.