The concern of this article is to examine the relationship between rel
igiousness and state-and-trait anxiety in a sample of cardiac transpla
ntation candidates. Religiousness was made operational by integrating
measures of religious orientation and religious coping with cluster an
alysis to form religious coping profiles. Three religious coping profi
les were identified: Deferring/Collaborators, Self-Directors, and Ecle
ctic. Analyses of variance indicated that coping profiles were signifi
cantly different in their report of trait anxiety, such that the Eclec
tics reported a good deal more trait anxiety than did the Self-Directo
rs. This leads to a discussion of the implications for the clinical pr
esentation of religious coping profiles in cardiac transplantation can
didates.