2007
DOI: 10.1097/nmd.0b013e31811f4062
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Spiritual Well-Being and Health

Abstract: Data on empirical associations between religious variables and health outcomes are needed to clarify the complex interplay between religion and mental health. The aim of this study was to determine whether associations with health variables are primarily attributable to explicitly religious aspects of spiritual well-being (SWB) or to "existential" aspects that primarily reflect a sense of satisfaction or purpose in life. Three hundred forty-five pairs of twins from the Vietnam Era Twin Registry completed a dia… Show more

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“…Unfortunately, the NCLS did not include any global measures of congregant well-being with which to compare the results with respect to these domains of religious well-being. However, previous studies have reliably found that domain-specific measures of religious well-being are correlated with more global measures of psychological and physical well-being (Tsuang et al, 2007). Demographic controls include age, gender, marital status, employment status, race, and education level.…”
Section: Individual-level Variablesmentioning
confidence: 98%
“…Unfortunately, the NCLS did not include any global measures of congregant well-being with which to compare the results with respect to these domains of religious well-being. However, previous studies have reliably found that domain-specific measures of religious well-being are correlated with more global measures of psychological and physical well-being (Tsuang et al, 2007). Demographic controls include age, gender, marital status, employment status, race, and education level.…”
Section: Individual-level Variablesmentioning
confidence: 98%
“…Factorial independence from personality shown by the SWBQ indicates that it does more than just 'religify' existing personality constructs [Van Wicklin, cited in 42]. Some researchers have tried to equate spiritual well-being with mental well-being [43,44]. However, Rowold has recently provided evidence that the German version of the SWBQ/SHALOM scales are independent of mental, as well as physical and emotional well-being, adding to our 'knowledge about the validity of the construct of spiritual well-being' [45].…”
Section: Spiritual Health and Life-orientation Measure (Shalom)mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Research has focused on defining and conceptualizing the concept of spirituality (Pargament, 1999b), the measurement of spirituality (Miller, 2004;Levenson et al, 2005) and has explored the role of spirituality within a range of contexts such as the relationship between spirituality and health outcomes (Rippentrop et al, 2005;Tsuang et al, 2007;Schlundt et al, 2008;Park et al, 2009). However, the robustness of research addressing spirituality might be affected by the lack of a uniform definition of the concept.…”
Section: Challenges Defining Spiritualitymentioning
confidence: 99%