This article examines the similarities and differences between a religious-philosophical approach to contingency and a (religious) psychological approach to coping with health problems. We elaborate on theoretical and empirical developments in research on coping, meaning-focused coping and religious coping. Religious coping is seen as a special form of meaning-focused coping. These coping perspectives are related to Wuchterl’s model for dealing with contingency and an extension of this model, based on Dutch empirical research among cancer patients.

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偶然性和有意义的应对

本文探讨了针对应急的宗教哲学方法与应对健康问题的（宗教）心理方法之间的异同。我们详细阐述了应对，意向应对和宗教应对研究的理论和经验发展。宗教应对被视为一种以意思为重点的应对的特殊形式。这些应对的观点与Wuchterl的应变方法模型有关，并且基于荷兰对癌症患者的实证研究，对该模型进行了扩展。