Sistema de creencias y afrontamiento espiritual en adultos que profesan la religión católica e islámica. Cuenca

Abstract

The objective of this article is to compare the belief system and spiritual coping in adults who profess the Catholic and Islamic religion in the city of Cuenca. The research handled a quantitative approach and the scope of the comparative type was carried out in adults, males between 18 and 65 years of age, practitioners of the aforementioned religions. The variables analyzed are the conviction and frequency of use of religious and non-religious strategies. The study sample consists of 100 men: 70% practitioners of the Catholic religion and 30% practitioners of Islam; for the collection of information of the SBI-15R Beliefs system and the scale of Spiritual Coping Strategies, therefore, for a better visualization of the results, the histograms, and box and whisker diagrams were used, the data processing was performed in the statistical program SPSS STATISTIC 23 and the editing of tables in Excel 2016. It was concluded that the greater the degree of religious conviction, the greater the use of religious and non-religious strategies that reaffirm their beliefs. The group of practitioners of Islam were those who obtained the highest score in the results, evidencing their great religious conviction, on the other hand, Catholics would have to use the same religious practices, but to a lesser extent than the Islamic ones.