Abstract
Studies on religious coping often focus on major life stress. The present study
proposes to show that religion, measured by church attendance and prayer use, would be an
effective coping strategy in dealing with daily stress levels that would include both major and
minor stressors. Optimism, self-efficacy and life satisfaction were also analysed in relation to
religion. A convenience sample of 116 participants completed questionnaires consisting of
demographic information including church attendance and prayer use along with scales on
perceived stress, general self-efficacy, optimism, coping dimensions and life satisfaction. The
results showed that religion, church attendance and prayer combined and prayer individually,
was not significantly related to stress indicating that religion is not an effective coping
method for daily stress
