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Brief Religious Coping Questionnaire (B-RCOPE)

Brief Religious Coping Questionnaire (B-RCOPE) Test

Understand how faith shapes your coping in hard times in about 3 minutes. Fast, 13 items, showing when spirituality supports you and when it adds stress to guide care.

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October 2, 2025

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13/24

Negative Religious Coping (NRC)

Measures the extent of spiritual struggle and distress-based religious coping (e.g., doubt, feeling abandoned or punished) during stressful events.

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0 – 8: Low | 9 – 16: Moderate | 17 – 24: High

A score of 13 falls in the Moderate range, suggesting a noticeable but not extreme degree of spiritual tension or negative religious coping in difficult situations.

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15/28

Positive Religious Coping (PRC)

Measures how often a person uses supportive, meaning-focused religious or spiritual coping strategies during stress or hardship.

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Moderate use

High use

0 – 9: Low use | 10 – 19: Moderate use | 20 – 28: High use

A score of 15 indicates a moderate level of positive religious coping, suggesting these supportive faith-based strategies are used sometimes but not consistently across difficult situations.

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People going through illness, loss, conflict, or major change who want to see whether faith is helping them cope or adding stress.

Clients in counseling

34%OF USERS

People already in therapy or pastoral care who want a quick picture of their positive and negative spiritual coping patterns.

Caregivers and chaplaincy trainees

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Helpers supporting others in hospitals, churches, or community settings who want to understand how someone’s spirituality affects coping under pressure.

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Negative (N)

Average

8.6

Normal range

5.6 — 11.6

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20.8

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What does this questionnaire measure?

It measures how often religious or spiritual beliefs and practices are used to cope during stress, illness, or other crises. It includes both helpful and distressing forms of coping.

How long does it take and how many items are included?

Typical completion time is about 3 minutes. It contains 13 items.

What is meant by positive and negative religious coping?

Positive coping reflects support through faith, prayer, meaning-making, and perceived spiritual connection. Negative coping reflects spiritual struggle, doubt, and feeling abandoned, punished, or conflicted.

How should responses be rated?

Each item is rated by selecting how often the stated thought or practice occurs during difficult situations. Responses should reflect the current or recent experience during a specific crisis.

How are results used?

Results can indicate whether religion is functioning mainly as a resource or as a source of added stress. Findings may help guide clinical or counseling support by identifying strengths and areas of spiritual struggle.

WHAT THE TEST MEASURES

About This Assessment

Brief Religious Coping Questionnaire (B-RCOPE) Test

religiosity coping behavior

This measure assesses how individuals draw on religious or spiritual resources when coping with stress, illness, or other adverse experiences. The Brief Religious Coping Questionnaire (B-RCOPE) is designed to capture both potentially supportive and potentially distressing forms of religious coping.

It includes 13 items and typically takes about 3 minutes to complete. Respondents rate how frequently they use specific coping thoughts or practices, allowing clinicians and researchers to characterize coping patterns (e.g., positive coping such as seeking spiritual support or meaning, and negative coping such as spiritual struggle, doubt, or perceived abandonment).

In clinical and research settings, the Brief Religious Coping Questionnaire (B-RCOPE) may be used to inform case conceptualization and treatment planning by identifying areas where religious coping may function as a resource or a source of additional distress.

Author: kenneth-i-pargament

Literature: Pargament, K. I., Smith, B. W., Koenig, H. G., & Perez, L. Religious coping and the RCOPE. Journal of Scientific Study of Religion. 1998.

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