Advances in Nursing & Midwifery

Abstract

Introduction

Institutionalized children face with many stressful situations and problems. These are complicated during adolescence period with its critical condition. Hence, understanding efficient coping strategies toovercome difficult situations may satisfy the emotional needs of these adolescents and nature their cognitiveand psychological development. One of the issues with little evidence is the coping strategies they apply particularly in spiritual domain. It seems that lack of a conceptual or theoretical framework has been a lag for investigating in this regard. According to Theory of Reasoned Action, attitude and subjective norms regarding a behavior influenced by external factors are the most important predictors of a behavior.

     The purpose of this article is to provide a conceptual framework based on the theory, denoting a relationship between external factors including demographics (age and sex), personal factors (self-esteem, self-efficacy and hopefulness), spiritual attitude as well as subjective norms and spiritual coping of the adolescents as a focused behavior.

Keywords: Spiritual coping, Institutionalized adolescents, Theory of Reasoned Action.