a a a In Simonic’s Klobucar’s “Experiencing and (2017) article entitled Positive
Religious Coping Process of in the Divorce: A Qualitative the researchers Study,”
found positive spiritual or religious coping highly adaptive and even to be
transformative for those having undergone the major stressor of divorce. The
researchers utilized of phenomenological Colaizzi’s (1978) “method inquiry” (as
cited Simonic in & Klobucar, 1649). This methodology resides the 2017, p. in
camp of structuralism seeks identify current feelings, phenomen as it to a,
thoughts, and sensations that exist presently the mind. After Simonic and in
Klobucar analyzed the input received through phenomenological methodology,
they came to the following summation regarding three themes of lived experience
for the divorced participants: “experiencing the burden of divorce, which related to
experiencing the relationship with God and the ways of spiritual coping with
divorce, and experiencing the effects of religious coping with divorce” (p. 1649).
a a a a a a a For this study, Simonic and Klobucar interviewed eleven participants that
had undergone divorce the last five years. Margulis (2007) claimed, in “Divorce
takes place on different levels and covers different areas: emotional divorce, legal
divorce, economical divorce, parental vorce, mental divorce, well divorce di as as
from a community (social network of friends, neighbors, school, etc.)” (as cited in
Simonic & Klobucar, 2017, p. 1647). The reality divorce impacts every domain is
of human functioning, including relationships with self, others, and God.
a a a a a a a In this particular study surrounding divorce, all participants utilized positive
spiritual or religious coping. Pargament (2002) defined positive religious coping as
the following:
[It] includes forms stemming from a secure relationship with God, the feeling of
connection with him as well as with the members of a religious community, a
positive belief that possible find it is to meaning in life, and the feeling that we
can learn from hard experiences. (as cited in Simonic & Klobucar, 2017, p. 1646)
Sometimes a concept becomes clearer when the opposite defined. Thus, is
Pargament (2002) clarified positive spiritual coping by explaining negative spiritual
or religious coping:
