Religiousness, spirituality, and eudaimonic and hedonic well-being

Yoon, Eunju; Chang, Christine Chih-Ting; Clawson, Angela; Knoll, Michael; Aydin, Fatma; Barsigian, Laura; Hughes, Kelly

doi:10.1080/09515070.2014.968528

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“…Consistent with this, researchers (e.g. Yoon et al, 2015) have noted that individual spirituality influences meaning in life and/or connectedness with others. Thus, it is plausible that employees with high level of individual spirituality will seek and have high levels of workplace spirituality experiences.…”

Section: Hypotheses For the Direct Effects Modelmentioning

confidence: 56%

The relationship of individual spirituality and organizational spirituality with meaning and community at work

Pawar

2017

LODJ

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to carry out an empirical examination to assess the nature of effects an employee’s individual spirituality and organizational spirituality have on the employee’s experience of meaning in work and community at work facets of workplace spirituality. Design/methodology/approach This paper specifies and examines, using a cross-sectional survey research design, the empirical support for two alternative models – a direct effects model and a moderating effect model – of the likely influences of an employee’s individual spirituality and organizational spirituality on the meaning and community facets of workplace spirituality. Findings The findings indicate considerable support for the direct effects model but no support for the moderating effect model. Within the direct effects model, organizational spirituality had much stronger association than employees’ individual spirituality with the workplace spirituality facets of meaning and community. Research limitations/implications This study may encourage future research to examine other antecedents of workplace spirituality, and the moderators and mediators of the relationship between organizational spirituality and workplace spirituality. Practical implications It suggests to the practitioners that for enhancing employee experiences of workplace spirituality, organizational spirituality implementation is a more effective way than developing employees’ individual spirituality. Social implications The study indicates that employees’ spiritual needs of meaning and community at work can be better fulfilled through organizational spirituality implementation than through individual spirituality development. Originality/value This is an original empirical examination and its value partly comes from its research implications and practice implications.

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Section: Hypotheses For the Direct Effects Modelmentioning

confidence: 56%

The relationship of individual spirituality and organizational spirituality with meaning and community at work

Pawar

2017

LODJ

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“…First, as explained in the potential contributions section earlier in this paper, existing research (e.g. Kaplan et al , 2014; Luthans et al , 2013; McKee et al , 2011; Yoon et al , 2015) has mostly covered only a few well-being forms while seeking to simultaneously study multiple forms of employee well-being. In contrast with this limiting feature of the existing studies, the present study covers four forms of employee well-being, namely; emotional well-being, psychological well-being, social well-being, and spiritual well-being.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Third, existing research has paid only limited attention to simultaneously studying multiple forms of employee well-being. For example, Vandenberghe (2011) covered only psychological well-being, McKee et al (2011) measured mental well-being, health behaviors, physical well-being, and spiritual well-being, Luthans et al (2013) focussed on only overall well-being and satisfactions in certain domains, Kaplan et al (2014) measured only positive affective well-being and negative affective well-being, and Yoon et al (2015) focussed on hedonic well-being and the meaning aspect of eudaimonic well-being. Thus, even the studies which examined multiple forms of employee well-being have covered only a few forms of employee well-being.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…First, researchers (e.g. Garssen et al , 2016; Jordan et al , 2014; Lun and Bond, 2013; McKee et al , 2011; Yoon et al , 2016) have noted that in the existing research there is considerable evidence supporting the relationship between individual spirituality and well-being. As workplace spirituality fulfills employees’ needs for meaning and community at workplace, which are referred to as transcendent needs (e.g.…”

Section: Hypotheses: Workplace Spirituality and Four Well-being Formsmentioning

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Workplace spirituality and employee well-being: an empirical examination

Pawar

2016

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Purpose The existing literature suggests that employee well-being is an important concern for organizations. The purpose of this paper is to carry out an empirical examination to assess whether employee experience of workplace spirituality has positive relationships with multiple forms of employee well-being. Design/methodology/approach This paper focussed on four forms of employee well-being, namely: emotional well-being, psychological well-being, social well-being, and spiritual well-being. It specified and empirically tested, using a survey design, four hypotheses, each proposing a positive relationship between workplace spirituality and one of the four forms of employee well-being. Findings All four hypotheses were supported indicating that workplace spirituality has a positive relationship with emotional, psychological, social, and spiritual well-being. Research limitations/implications This paper may encourage future research to assess whether various forms of employee well-being result from specific dimensions of workplace spirituality. Practical implications Organizations may implement workplace spirituality for simultaneously enhancing multiple forms of employee well-being. Social implications As employee well-being is a matter of social concern, the findings of this study indicating a positive association between workplace spirituality and employee well-being have a social relevance. Originality/value To the author’s knowledge, this is the first study to examine the relationship between workplace spirituality and four forms of employee well-being, namely; emotional, psychological, social, and spiritual well-being. As employee well-being is an important concern for organizations, the contribution of the study findings is that workplace spirituality implementation can simultaneously enhance multiple forms of employee well-being.

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“…The distinction of eudaimonic and hedonic well-being has been shown to differentially relate to a number of variables such as long-term orientation (Huta & Ryan, 2010;Joshanloo, Jovanović, & Park, 2020;Vittersø & Søholt, 2011), developmental changes (LeFebvre & Huta, 2021 , and might also be differentially related to health outcomes (Pancheva, Ryff, & Lucchini, 2021). Nevertheless, eudaimonia and hedonia tend to be correlated at very high levels (Extremera, Ruiz-Aranda, Pineda-Galán, & Salguero, 2011; see for examples : Fowers, Mollica, & Procacci, 2010;Yoon et al, 2015). Taken together that while eudaimonic and hedonic well-being are not necessarily independent, they appear to be the results of different underlying psychological processes and may relate to different important life outcomes (Huta, 2016).…”

Section: Stoic Ideology and The Good Lifementioning

confidence: 99%

Stoic Ideology and Well-being

Karl¹,

Fischer²

2020

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Ancient philosophy identified a wide range of possible approaches to life which are supposed to enable wellbeing. The stoic approach to life focused on emotional restraint and an overall orientation towards meaning in life. While few individuals are explicit adherents to stoicism, individuals can also adopt an approach to life representing a naive stoic ideology. While in the past this approach has been largely investigated in relation to ideals of masculinity, recently the focus has widened to examine how stoic ideology might be related to wellbeing across individuals. While initial research focusing on hedonic conceptualizations of wellbeing has found substantial negative effects of stoic ideology, no study so far has examined the differential effects that stoic ideology might have on eudaimonic and hedonic wellbeing. In this pre-registered study, 636 participants reported their stoic ideology, eudaimonic and hedonic wellbeing, as well as their orientations to happiness. Overall, we found that the recently developed measure of stoic ideology showed good measurement properties and we confirmed the negative effects of stoic beliefs on hedonic wellbeing observed in previous studies. Additionally, we found that in contrast to our hypothesis stoic ideology significantly negatively predicted eudaimonic wellbeing and eudaimonic wellbeing orientation, as well as engagement in life. This indicates that a naive endorsement of stoic ideology might be detrimental to individuals’ wellbeing independent of the specific aspect.

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Religiousness, spirituality, and eudaimonic and hedonic well-being

Cited by 23 publications

References 51 publications

The relationship of individual spirituality and organizational spirituality with meaning and community at work

The relationship of individual spirituality and organizational spirituality with meaning and community at work

Workplace spirituality and employee well-being: an empirical examination

Stoic Ideology and Well-being

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