Dogmatism, coping, and spirituality : predicting mental health among the religious and the secular.

Moore, Jonathan T.

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“…This notion of spiritual harmony (statistical opposite of dissonance) applied equally well to religious and secular participants in a study employing the original version of SHALOM [24]. Nevertheless, a few non-religious people objected to the use of "God"-words in the Transcendental domain items.…”

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confidence: 89%

“…The dissonance technique thus provides a better measure of quality of relationships in the four domains, which reflect spiritual well-being. An application of this technique, in a recent web survey using SHALOM, revealed that "spiritual harmony shared the strongest relationship with mental health when compared to any other variable used in this study" ( [24], p. 84). This finding applied equally well to the religious and secular participants in that study.…”

Section: Spiritual Harmony/dissonancementioning

confidence: 90%

“…An additional alternative version of the SWBQ-SHALOM employed a scale score from 1 to 6 [24]. Two further researchers only used selected items from the total 20-item instrument [62,63] and one more used the total score instead of factor scores [64].…”

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confidence: 99%

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Selecting the Best Version of SHALOM to Assess Spiritual Well-Being

Fisher

2016

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This paper extends the reporting of contemporary use of the Spiritual Health and Life-Orientation Measure (SHALOM), which provides flexibility to researchers, enabling them to choose the version of the instrument that best suits the cohort under investigation. SHALOM was built on a solid theoretical foundation, provided by the Four Domains Model of Spiritual Health/Well-Being. It comprises 20 items that assess spiritual well-being, as reflected in the quality of relationships that each person has with themselves, others, the environment, and/or with God. Summary results are reported from 30 recent studies. SHALOM provides a unique form of assessment that is statistically stronger than just assessing lived experiences, in that spiritual harmony/dissonance is studied by comparing each person's "lived experiences" with her/his "ideals" for spiritual well-being. SHALOM has been sought for use with hundreds of studies in 29 languages, in education, healthcare and wider community. A generic form of SHALOM was developed to expand the Transcendental domain to include more than God. However, recent studies have shown that relating with God is most important for spiritual well-being. The best version of SHALOM to assess spiritual well-being depends on the needs of the clients/participants and the project goals of the researcher. This will involve a selection between the original form of Spiritual Well-Being Questionnaire-SHALOM for comparison with other measures and investigation of characteristics influencing spiritual well-being; or the dissonance method for spiritual care; and either the original or the generic version of SHALOM for use with non-religious/secular participants.

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Section: Spiritual Harmony/dissonancementioning

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Selecting the Best Version of SHALOM to Assess Spiritual Well-Being

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2016

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“…Education, Spirituality and the Whole Child, (pp. [93][94][95][96][97][98][99][100][101][102][103][104][105][106][107]. London: Cassell.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Dehshiri expanded the responses from a 5-point to 6-point Likert scale [97] by including a 0 option for 'none'. Moore expanded this option to indicate 'none/not relevant' [98].Moodley modified items and added new ones [99]. Van Rooyen used this modified SWBQ to report a variety of spiritualities [100].…”

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The Importance of Relating with God for Spiritual Well-Being

Fisher¹

2013

Spirituality: New Reflections on Theory, Praxis and Pedagogy

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The importance of relating with God for Spiritual Well-BeingTwenty years of research in spiritual health/well-being culminate in this thesis. My PhD (1998), University of Melbourne, presented a Four Domains Model of Spiritual Health/Well-Being. This formed the theoretical base for several spiritual well-being questionnaires, presented in my EdD ( 2009), University of Ballarat. The main instrument, Spiritual Health And Life-Orientation Measure (SHALOM), proposed a novel method of assessing quality of relationships which are posited as reflecting spiritual well-being.These relationships are of each person with themselves, others, the environment and/or with a Transcendent Other (God). Instead of just investigating lived experiences, SHALOM asks for two responses to each item. Each respondent's lived experience is compared with their stated ideals. Studies presented herein show that this double-response method, comparing ideal with actual, provides a statistically stronger measure of quality of relationships than lived experiences alone, thus spiritual well-being.Eighteen publications included in this thesis relate to studies of spiritual wellbeing in educational, healthcare and general community settings. A total of 52 studies, using SHALOM with 41686 people from 27 countries, have shown that, of the four sets of relationships measured by SHALOM, relating with God explains greatest variance in spiritual well-being, so is therefore most important.An international study with people involved with, as well as some opposed to, spirituality and religious education led to a generic form of SHALOM, in which the theistic words were replaced by 'Transcendent', with 19 alternatives provided from which to select preferred Transcendent, or none. This project revealed that relating with God, as Transcendent, provides greatest support for a person's relating with self and others, in contrast to help provided by non-theistic and non-religious Transcendents and not believing in Transcendents. This research implies that researchers need to investigate relationship with God in any study of spiritual well-being, whether or not it fits their personal worldview.

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Dogmatism and mental health: A comparison of the religious and secular.

Moore

Leach

2016

Psychology of Religion and Spirituality

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Religiousness has frequently been found to be associated with higher reported mental health levels than those found in individuals lower in reported religiousness. These results have often been inferred by scholars to mean that secular groups have poorer levels of mental health despite the fact that secular populations have rarely been included in studies. In this study, an ideologically diverse sample of 4,667 respondents was included to determine the relationships among general dogmatism levels, existential dogmatism, religiousness, and 5 indicators of mental health. The sample mainly comprised agnostic, atheist, Buddhist, Christian, Jewish, and spiritual nonreligious participants. Statistical analyses indicated that atheistic and theistic groups showed no significant differences on 4 of the 5 mental health indicators. Existential dogmatism and religiousness had similar positive relationships with mental health, but each had weak predictive strengths. The implications of the current study are that secular and religious adherents have similar levels of mental health, which is contrary to expectations based on the previous literature.

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Dogmatism, coping, and spirituality : predicting mental health among the religious and the secular.

Cited by 4 publications

References 143 publications

Selecting the Best Version of SHALOM to Assess Spiritual Well-Being

Selecting the Best Version of SHALOM to Assess Spiritual Well-Being

The Importance of Relating with God for Spiritual Well-Being

Dogmatism and mental health: A comparison of the religious and secular.

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