The relationship between religiosity, religious coping, and anxieties about the future: a multidimensional analysis on the Evangelical churches of Naples

The Covid-19 pandemic has had an impact on the social and personal lives of individuals, leading to the development of new forms of adaptation and response to critics. Extraordinary and traumatic events can have significant consequences on the way of living and practicing faith. The research is part of the studies on Temporal Perspective (PT) concerning to religiosity, deepening the idea of temporal perspective as culturally sensitive, and therefore, also influenced by religious factors. The intent is to investigate how transcendental can relate to the perspective of individuals and the consequent way of interpreting and acting reality, especially in crises. The aim of contribute is to investigate the relationship between religiosity, religious coping, anxiety for the times to come, and the prospect of the transcendental future in the period of the pandemic. The study aims to understand whether religiosity and beliefs, experiences, and practices (public and private) have affected the prospects of individuals. We referred to the concept of anxiety about the future due to the emergency in which there has been a response with an approach to faith and religious practices, using religion as a coping tool. According to this, we administered a survey on a sample of subjects of the Neapolitan protestant Christian population of the Evangelical churches of the Assemblies of God in Italy (ADI). Then, a Multiple Correspondence Analysis (MCA) was carried out to identify the relationship between religiosity, coping tools, and prospects.