Identifying spiritual coping strategies in persons living with HIV/AIDS

Pages: 1004-1007
Fauzia Khatoon (Department of Psychology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh)

Human being have the potential to develop their life project which can be affected by the experience of chronic disease, where spirituality and the coping process emerge as a human expression in search of balance or improving quality of life perspective. Spirituality provides an important function of helping people to find meaning and purpose in their lives. Various researches finding support the use of spiritual coping with HIV/AIDS.The present study explores spiritual coping strategies among male and female persons living with HIV/AIDS. The spiritual coping scale developed by Husain and Khatoon (2016) was administered to a sample of 25male and 25 female persons living with HIV/AIDS.The objective of this study was to identify coping strategies among persons living with HIV/AIDS and to examine differences between males and females HIV/AIDS persons on each item of spiritual coping scale(SCS). Results revealed that significant difference were found between the mean scores of male and female persons living with HIV/AIDS on items: I ask others to pray for me,I am doing yoga sanas, I work together with God to relieve me from worries, I do self-forgiveness exercise on Spiritual Coping Scale.