Rex Billington

TL;DR: Most items were rated as more important by women compared to men and by younger compared to older persons, and rank orders of item for their importance showed highly significant correlations between centres.

TL;DR: This article investigated the strategies international university students use to cope with stressors and found that Asian students were more likely to use religious coping strategies than European students, regardless of stress levels encountered or whether participants were international or domestic students.

TL;DR: The results show that religion/spirituality might function as a coping mechanism in international students in response to stressors of acculturation, and was significantly correlated with psychological quality of life in both groups, and social quality oflife in internationalStudents.

TL;DR: The WHOQOL-BREF is valid to use with medical students to assess health-related quality of life, but some items, such as those inquiring about pain and medication, may not be suitable for medical students or young people in general.

TL;DR: Investigating the role ofreligious coping requires more complex approaches than attempting to assign it to one higher order factor, such as problem- or emotion-focused coping, and that the variability of findings reported by previous studies on the function of religious coping may partly be due to variability in religiosity and spirituality across samples.