Relationship Between Religiosity And Coping Strategies For Stress: The Model Of Theology Faculty

Stress, which is defined as pressure sitution felt on the person, is one of the most frequently encountered concepts in life, so it is important how the stress can be coped. This article examines the relationship between religiosity and coping strategies for stress.“The religiousity of university students is positively correlated with the coping strategies for stress”constitutes the hypothesis of the research. This hypothesis was discussed within the datas obtained from the survey of religiosity and the scale of coping strategies for stress applied to a group of 100(female:72,male:28) students who are studying at the Theology Faculty in Istanbul University. Independent t-test, frequencies and one way ANOVA were applied for determining the statistical relationship between variables. The analyzing of research datas were used by SPSS 18.00 program. The results revealed that both the religiousity and the religious educational level of university students was positively correlated with the coping strategies for stress