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- Title
The lived experience of Buddhist-oriented religious coping in late life: Buddhism as a cognitive schema.
- Authors
Xu, Jianbin
- Abstract
This article explores how older Buddhists in Singapore use Buddhist beliefs and practices to cope with stress. Semi-structured interviews with six older Buddhists were conducted. Interview transcripts were analyzed using interpretative phenomenological analysis. Data analysis identified three ways of Buddhist-oriented religious coping: meaning-making coping, meditative coping, and ego-transcendence coping. In meaning-making coping, participants employed the notions of karma and duḥkha to make sense of stress. Participants' meditative coping methods included visualization and mantra meditation. During ego-transcendence coping, participants drew on the notion of non-attachment to the ego. The three ways of Buddhist-oriented religious coping can be examined in a Buddhism-as-cognitive-schema perspective.
- Subjects
SINGAPORE; MEDITATION; EGO (Psychology); BUDDHISM; RESEARCH methodology; SELF-perception; INTERVIEWING; TRANSCENDENCE (Philosophy); EXPERIENCE; PHENOMENOLOGY; LIFE; PSYCHOLOGICAL adaptation; PSYCHOLOGICAL stress; COGNITION in old age; RELIGION
- Publication
Journal of Health Psychology, 2021, Vol 26, Issue 10, p1549
- ISSN
1359-1053
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/1359105319882741