scholarly journals A Comparative Survey Study on Meaning-Making Coping among Cancer Patients in Turkey

Religions ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 284
Author(s):  
Önver A. Cetrez ◽  
Fereshteh Ahmadi ◽  
Pelin Erbil
Keyword(s):  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Cancer Patients ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Survey Study ◽  
Spiritual Coping ◽  
Religious Leaders ◽  
Coping Methods ◽  
Younger Age ◽  
Big City ◽  
Spiritual And Religious Coping

(1) Background: The role of culture in secular, spiritual, and religious coping methods is important, but needs more attention in research. The aim has been to (1) investigate the meaning-making coping methods among cancer patients in Turkey and (2) whether there were differences in two separate samples (compared to Study 2, Study 1 had a younger age group, was more educated, and grew up in a big city), (3) paying specific attention to gender, age, education, and area of residence. (2) Methods: Quantitative study using a convenience sampling in two time periods, Study 1 (n = 94) and Study 2 (n = 57). (3) Results: In Study 2, there is a significant increase in several religious and spiritual coping strategies. Additionally, there is a positive correlation between being a woman and using more religious or spiritual coping strategies. Secular meaning-making coping strategies also increase significantly in Study 2. The results confirmed the hypotheses for gender, educational, and age differences in seeking support from religious leaders. The results also confirmed the hypotheses for gender and educational level in a punishing God reappraisal and demonic reappraisal. (4) Conclusions: As Turkey is a country at the junction of strong religiosity and deep-rooted secularism, dividing up the meaning-making coping methods into the religious and spiritual, on one hand, and the secular, on the other, reveals interesting results.

scholarly journals A Survey Study Among Cancer Patients in Turkey

2017 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 234-254 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fereshteh Ahmadi ◽  
Önver A. Cetrez ◽  
Pelin Erbil ◽  
Asil Ortak ◽  
Nader Ahmadi
Keyword(s):  
Religious Coping ◽  
Cancer Patients ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Survey Study ◽  
Spiritual Coping ◽  
Electronic Survey ◽  
Coping Methods ◽  
Quantitative Studies ◽  
The Media

To understand the role of culture on the use of the meaning-making coping among people who have been struck by cancer, qualitative and quantitative studies have been conducted in several countries like Sweden, China, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, and Turkey. This article reports on a quantitative study carried out in Turkey. The aim of the study has been to answer the following question: “Which meaning-making coping method (even nonreligious or spiritual coping methods) is used by informants?” The sample consists of 95 persons, 18+ who had been struck by cancer. The questionnaire was distributed to former/current cancer patients via a web address as an electronic survey through the media page of Cancer Survivors Association. The results of the study show that the most important coping methods used by cancer patients in Turkey are the religious coping (RCOPE) methods, particularly spiritual connection, active religious surrender, passive religious deferral, and pleading for direct intercession. Several RCOPE methods such as spiritual discontent, seeking support from clergy or members, punishing God reappraisal, and demonic reappraisal or self-directing religious coping are not used by the Turkish informants. Nor are non-RCOPE methods highly prevalent among informants.

Religious/Spiritual Coping Methods Among Cancer Patients in Portugal

2018 ◽  
pp. 105413731881788
Author(s):  
Fereshteh Ahmadi ◽  
Paula Mena Matos ◽  
Rita Tavares ◽  
Carla Tomás ◽  
Nader Ahmadi
Keyword(s):  
Cancer Patients ◽  
Spiritual Coping ◽  
Coping Methods

scholarly journals Spiritual and Secular Existential Meaning-Making Coping Methods among Japanese Cancer Patients

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (6) ◽  
pp. 109
Author(s):  
Fereshteh Ahmadi ◽  
Mohammad Rabbani ◽  
Xiaohe Yi ◽  
Hiroko Kase ◽  
Nader Ahmadi
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Cancer Patients ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
International Project ◽  
Sociological Perspective ◽  
Existential Meaning ◽  
Coping Methods ◽  
The Impact

The present article is written on the basis of a sociological international project on meaning-making coping. The aim of the project has been to understand the role of culture in meaning-making coping. The project embarrasses studies among cancer patients in 10 countries. The present article is confined to the results obtained in the study in japan. The main aim was to investigate the impact of culture from a sociological perspective on the choice of coping methods. Twelve participants with various kinds of cancer were interviewed.Several meaning-making coping methods are found in the present study. This study underlines the importance of investigating cultural and social context when investigating into the use of the meaning-making coping methods in different countries.

scholarly journals Meaning-Making Coping Methods among Bereaved Parents: A Pilot Survey Study in Sweden

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (10) ◽  
pp. 131
Author(s):  
Fereshteh Ahmadi ◽  
Saeid Zandi
Keyword(s):  
Meaning Making ◽  
Psychosocial Problems ◽  
Survey Study ◽  
Coping Methods ◽  
Coping With Cancer ◽  
Bereaved Parents ◽  
Convenience Sampling ◽  
Coping With Illness ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Selection Of

The death of a child may result in traumatizing forms of grief, and meaning-making coping with loss seems to be important in prevention of intense psychosocial problems among bereaved parents. The aim of this quantitative pilot study was to discover the divergent meaning-making coping methods used by bereaved parents in Sweden. In doing so, 162 respondents were selected using a convenience sampling method, and they responded to the modified version of RCOPE. The study revealed that the strategies talking to others about their feelings, pondering the meaning of life alone, and being in nature for greater emotional affiliation, i.e., what we call secular existential coping methods, have been the most used meaning-making coping methods among Swedish mourning parents. While explaining the results, we considered the respondents’ cultural background and speculated about the potential influence of cultural teachings and elements in the selection of ways of coping with bereavement. Further, we compared the results obtained with those of the two other Swedish studies conducted among people coping with cancer and COVID-19 to further discuss the impact of culture on coping with illness, loss, grief, and crisis. The study supports the idea that culture plays an essential role in the choice of coping methods.

scholarly journals Religious Coping Methods among Cancer Patients in Three Islamic Countries: A Comparative Perspective

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (5) ◽  
pp. 72
Author(s):  
Fereshteh Ahmadi ◽  
Mohammad Rabbani
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Religious Coping ◽  
Cancer Patients ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
International Study ◽  
Sociocultural Perspective ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Coping Methods ◽  
Islamic Countries ◽  
Religious Coping Methods

The present article aimed to compare the use of religious coping methods among cancer patients in three Islamic countries from a sociocultural perspective. The article is based on an international study on meaning-making coping in ten countries, among others Malaysia, Iran and Turkey. Qualitative semi-structured interviews were conducted among cancer patients in Malaysia (29), Iran (27) and Turkey (25). The results of the comparison show certain differences in use of religious coping methods between informants in these three countries despite Islam being the dominant religion in all contexts. The findings of this comparative study show the important role culture plays in coping.

Feelings of Quarantine: Allegories for the Lockdown

2021 ◽  
pp. 1354067X2110040
Author(s):  
Linus Paul Frederic Guenther
Keyword(s):  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Psychological Perspective ◽  
Study Analysis ◽  
Subjective Meaning ◽  
Case Study Analysis ◽  
Creative Self ◽  
Life Script ◽  
The Voice

This case study shows how allegories are a means to express the inexpressible and how Allegory Analysis can be a method to reveal it and bring out the subjective meaning making, life script ideology, and capability to deal with the ambivalent in critical life situations. From a cultural psychological perspective, the research is based on feelings during the quasi-quarantine period of the COVID-19 pandemic. The study tries to understand the coping strategies with which people deal with a psychological crisis in general concerning for the COVID-19 lockdown. It discusses further ways to deal with the ambivalences and subjective meaning making arousing through such a crisis. The case study analysis of Miss K. not only showed her meaning making processes and attitude of life but also showed how to deal with the uncertainty during the critical lockdown period. Through her allegories, she utters her current life script ideology that living nowadays means to function like a machine while being creative, self-reflective at the same time. Her meaning making process counterbalanced between the voice of being delivered to withdrawal or depression versus the voice of being able to learn, connect, and relax. Her coping strategy was bearing the ambivalence in a psychological crisis with faith.

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