Authors: Mohsen Joshanloo
Publish Date: 2010/12/04
Volume: 12, Issue: 6, Pages: 915-930
Abstract
Studies that have used both spirituality and religiousness measures to predict mental wellbeing are virtually nonexistent Furthermore in almost all of the past studies the distinction between hedonic and eudaimonic aspects of wellbeing has not been taken into account To address these limitations the present study sought to examine the relation between spirituality and religiousness and a rather comprehensive set of wellbeing scales in an Iranian Muslim sample Participants were 292 undergraduates at the University of Tehran Results of bivariate correlation analysis showed that all aspects of hedonic and eudaimonic wellbeing were positively correlated with all aspects of spirituality and religiousness Results of the multiple regression analysis demonstrated that spirituality was a stronger predictor of wellbeing than religiousness In order to further examine the unique contribution of spirituality and religiousness over each other and gender hierarchical regression analysis was applied Findings indicated that while spirituality was a significant predictor of wellbeing after partialling out the effects of gender and religiousness religiousness did not add significantly to the prediction of wellbeing over and above the contribution of gender and spirituality Implications of the results are discussed as are study limitations and directions for further research
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