An empirical investigation of the relationships among spirituality, well-being, and psychological health

• Main Authors: Zubairi, Az Athirah, Md Sawari, Siti Salwa
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Edupedia Publications Pvt Ltd 2018
• Subjects: BF Psychology; BF712 Developmental psychology; L Education (General)
• Online Access: http://irep.iium.edu.my/64768/1/64768_An%20Empirical%20Investigation.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/64768/; https://edupediapublications.org/journals/index.php/IJSS/article/view/15570

In this paper researchers will examine the relationship between spirituality, well-being, and the psychological health. The design used for the study is survey research design to explore the uniqueness population of interest, and for the standardization of measurement. This study is a quantitative in nature, whereby researcher used Spiritual Well-Being Scale (SWBS) (Paloutzian and Ellison, 1982) to assess the spiritual well-being of the participants. On the other hand, psychological health was measured by three different set of questionnaires; General Self-Efficacy (GSES), Rosernberg Self- Esteem (RSE) and Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS). Result in this study indicated that spiritual health is significantly associated with psychological health; self-efficacy, self-esteem and life satisfaction.