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Abstract
In times of crisis or threat, religion is one of the primary resources that people use to cope. Cancer diagnosis and treatment are an exceptionally demanding event for anyone. By this, the present study aimed to verify the relationship between religious coping through RCOPE and depressive symptoms - anxious through DASS-21, in cancer patients. This quantitative, comparative, correlational, and cross-sectional study was carried out in a sample of 96 cancer patients from the Valdivia base Hospital, Chile, and a control group of 102 subjects. The main results obtained confirm the greater use of religious coping by cancer patients than the control group; the existence of a directly proportional relationship between negative religious coping and the presence of depressive-anxious symptoms; the absence of a relationship between positive religious coping and the presence of depressive-anxious symptoms. The discussion aims to understand the link between negative religiosity and the presence of depressive-anxious symptoms and how some people come to have this negative approach towards religiosity.
Keywords: religion, religious coping, cancer, depression, anxiety
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