social and religious backgrounds, praying is an important
coping strategy for Georgian students managing stressful situations. The results show this strategy has a stressbuffering
effect and has proved to be a situational resource under a stress. In the CISS questioner praying is
presented only with one question: ‘by stressful situation I am praying’, but ‘Religious coping is a complex, multifaced
phenomenon, that has no single character and to develop a clearer picture of the various manifestation of
religious expression, many research methods and tools are needed’(Pargament & Raiya, 2007).