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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.

Questions: 133 minutes

Brief Religious Coping Questionnaire (B-RCOPE): sample question card

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How the Scales are Structured

Negative Religious CopingNRC

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

example score13/24

13/24Moderateexample score

0 – 8Low

9 – 16Moderate

17 – 24High

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.

Positive Religious CopingPRC

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

example score15/28

15/28Moderate useexample score

0 – 9Low use

10 – 19Moderate use

20 – 28High 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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DATA-BASED USER COHORTS

Who Usually Takes This Test?

Believers facing a crisis

41%OF USERS

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

25%OF USERS

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

BASED ON AGGREGATED, ANONYMIZED DATA FROM TENS OF THOUSANDS OF FREUDLY USERS.

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Once you complete the test, your results are compared with real-world data from people in your country.
Below is a preview of how scores are typically distributed across each scale.

Shaded area — where most people score

Dot — the average

You — your score lands on each curve after the test— your score, after the test

NegativeN

You?

Average8.6

Typical rangeTypical5.6 – 11.6

Possible0 – 24

PositiveP

You?

Average20.8

Typical rangeTypical16.9 – 24.7

Possible0 – 28

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SAMPLE QUESTIONS

Example Questions From the Test

In the list of statements below, there are no right or wrong answers; the best answer is the one that most accurately reflects your experience. Although some items use the word “God,” when responding, please use the term for God (or a Higher Power) that is most meaningful to you. Please select “not at all / not applicable” for any statements that, within your worldview, simply do not make sense. Think about how you try to understand and cope with difficult life situations. To what extent are the experiences listed below characteristic of the way you cope with them?

- Never
- Rarely
- Sometimes
- Often
- Always
- Never
- Rarely
- Sometimes
- Often
- Always
- Never
- Rarely
- Sometimes
- Often
- Always

These are 3 of the 13 real questions — the rest appear in the test. No sign-up needed to start.

WHAT THE TEST MEASURES

About This Assessment

Brief Religious Coping Questionnaire (B-RCOPE) Test - Symptoms and Signs

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.

Updated: 2025-10-02