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  • Psychology
  • Religious Studies
  • Sociology

Background:

  • Emotional regulation is crucial for well-being.
  • Religion offers various strategies for emotional management.
  • Understanding the daily impact of religious coping is essential.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how daily use of religious strategies influences emotional well-being.
  • To explore the relationship between religious and religion-neutral coping mechanisms.
  • To assess the predictive value of religious strategies beyond general coping.

Main Methods:

  • A community sample of 198 Egyptian adults participated.
  • Data collected via 10 daily assessments over time.
  • Measures included trait religiosity, religious strategies, religion-neutral strategies, and emotional well-being.

Main Results:

  • Positive religious strategies correlated with increased positive emotion and decreased negative emotion.
  • Negative religious strategies correlated with decreased positive emotion and increased negative emotion.
  • These associations remained significant after controlling for religion-neutral strategies and trait religiosity.

Conclusions:

  • Daily use of positive religious strategies is linked to better emotional well-being.
  • Negative religious strategies are associated with poorer emotional outcomes.
  • Religious coping strategies uniquely predict emotional well-being, with positive strategies potentially enhancing the use of diverse secular coping methods.