PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL-BEING AND COPING STRATEGIES – RELIGIOS AND NON-RELIGIOUS INDIVIDUALS

Abstract

The present study is based on an impressive body of research on various dimensions of Psychological well-being and ways to deal with stress in religious and non-religious individuals. Applied is K. Ryff’s multidimensional model of Psychological well-being, Carver and colleague‘s model of coping strategies in search of an answer to the question: How does coping with stress affect the Psychological well-being of religious and nonreligious individuals? The results of the study confirm the positive correlation between Psychological well-being and the active, problem-focused and emotionally focused coping strategies. A negative impact between Psychological well-being and the avoidant and passive strategies was found in boht group.