The relationship between religiosity, religious coping, and anxieties about the future: a multidimensional analysis on the Evangelical churches of Naples Maria Gabriella Grassia University of Naples Federico II, Italy Marina Marino University of Naples Federico II, Italy Rocco Mazza University of Naples Federico II, Italy Agostino Stavolo University of Naples Federico II, Italy This is a section of ASA 2022 Data-Driven Decision Making(DOI: 10.36253/979-12-215-0106-3) by Enrico di Bella, Luigi Fabbris, Corrado Lagazio Firenze University Press Firenze 2023 https://doi.org/10.36253/979-12-215-0106-3.44

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The covid-19 pandemic have an impact on the social and personal lives of individuals, leading them to develop new forms of adaptation and response to crisis situations. From this perspective, religious coping theory highlights the possibility of coping with stressful situations in ways related to the sacred. The proposed work is part of the studies on Temporal Perspective (PT) in its relationship with religiosity, The aim of contribute is to investigate the relation between religiosity, the use of religion as a coping tool, anxiety for the times to come, and the prospect of the transcendental future in the period of the pandemic Covid-19. According to this, we administered a survey on sample of subjects of the Neapolitan Protestant Christian population of the Evangelical Churches of the Assemblies of God in Italy (A.D.I.). So, we carried out a multidimensional analysis to discover the relationships between the variables analyzed.

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