Spirituality, Religious Commitment, and Psychological Well-Being
Relationships between spiritual transcendence, religious commitment, and psychological well-being were examined among college undergraduates. Correlation and regression analyses indicated that spiritual transcendence and religious commitment share a core construct predictive of diminished trait anxi...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2006
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Research in the social scientific study of religion
Year: 2006, Volume: 16, Pages: 245-259 |
| Further subjects: | B
Social sciences
B Religion & Gesellschaft |
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| Summary: | Relationships between spiritual transcendence, religious commitment, and psychological well-being were examined among college undergraduates. Correlation and regression analyses indicated that spiritual transcendence and religious commitment share a core construct predictive of diminished trait anxiety. Only spiritual transcendence predicted increased levels of subjective happiness and life satisfaction. Two dimensions of spiritual transcendence, prayer fulfillment and universality, were significantly related to religious commitment. Spiritual transcendence was distinguished from religious commitment by connectedness, or a sense of personal responsibility to others across generations and among one’s peers. This may account for the unique association between spiritual transcendence and psychological well-being. Focus on others and the resulting emotional benefits may characterize the spiritually transcendent person, in the presence or absence of religious commitment. |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Research in the social scientific study of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/9789047417675_017 |