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  • Status of Spiritual Belief and psychological resilience and their correlation among university students
    Chinese Journal of Public Health, 2014
    Co-Authors: Han L
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    Objective To explore the status of Spiritual Belief and psychological resilience and their relationship among university students. Methods A total of 1 533 university students were investigated with the Questionnaire of Spiritual Belief and the Scale of Resilience. Regression was adopted in data analysis. Results Among the students,the score of practical Belief was the highest( 12. 69 ± 1. 99) and the score of supernatural Belief was the lowest( 5. 22 ±1. 19). The Spiritual Belief score of the studtents form southwest area(28. 48 ±3. 25) was obviously higher than that of students from eastern area(28. 10 ± 3. 28)( P 0. 05). The minority college students had higher scores of whole Belief(28. 86 ± 3. 39),supernatural Belief(5. 58 ± 1. 41),and social Belief( 10. 85 ± 1. 64) than Han students significantly(P 0. 001). The score of whole Belief(28. 57 ±3. 20)was the highest in the freshman(P 0. 01). The students from southwest area had a higher score of whole resilience(17. 99 ±2. 24) than the students from eastern area(17. 52 ±2. 33)(P 0. 001). The score of whole resilience of the girls(18. 04 ± 2. 24) was obviously higher than that of the boys(17. 47 ±2. 31)(P 0. 001)and the minority students had a higher whole resilience score(18. 23 ±2. 36) than the Han students(17. 62 ± 2. 24)( P 0. 001). The score of whole resilience of the freshman(17. 96 ± 2. 27)was the highest compared to all other students(P 0. 01). Social Belief was significantly related to every dimension of resilience positively.Supernatural Belief and utility Beliefs had different association with every dimension of resilience. Supernatural Belief showed significantly negative prediction effect on emotional control,positive cognition,and family support( P 0. 05 for all). But social Belief had obvious positive prediction effect on resilience( P 0. 001). Conclusion The Spiritual Belief of university students needs to be improved. Spiritual Belief is a predictor for psychological resilience among university students.

Carlo Bertolini - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Role of Spiritual Beliefs on disability and health-related quality of life in acute inpatient rehabilitation unit.
    European journal of physical and rehabilitation medicine, 2012
    Co-Authors: Loredana Maggi, Paola Emilia Ferrara, Irene Aprile, Gianpaolo Ronconi, Alessandro Specchia, Cristina Nigito, Eugenia Amabile, Alessia Rabini, Diana Barbara Piazzini, Carlo Bertolini
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    BACKGROUND: The influence of Spirituality and religious Beliefs on health-related quality of life and disability in the rehabilitation field is discussed in literature. AIM: To describe the role of Spiritual Belief on functional recovery and health-related quality of life in acute inpatient rehabilitation ward. DESIGN: Observational cross sectional study. SETTING: Inpatients clinic of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Department, University Hospital. POPULATION: One hundred and four patients admitted to an inpatient acute rehabilitation ward, after a neurological or orthopedic disease. METHODS: Anamnestic and demographic data were reported on a standardized form. The Royal Free Interview for Spiritual and Religious Beliefs (RFI) and Cumulative Illness Rating Scale (CIRS) were performed on admission (T0). SF-36 item Short Form Health Survey Questionnaire (SF36) and the Barthel index (BI) were performed on admission (T0) and on discharge (T1). RESULTS: Statistical analysis was performed on 102 patients with Spiritual Belief divided in strong (55 cases) and weak (47 cases) Spiritual Belief. Change from baseline (T1-T0) of SF36 domains between groups showed a significant higher improvement in Physical Role and Physical Composite Score in the weak Belief group than in the strong Belief group. The latter presented an improvement (without statistical significance) in almost every emotional score. We found no significant difference in change from baseline of Barthel index between the groups. CONCLUSION: Strength of Spiritual Belief seems to influence some aspects of quality of life of acute inpatient in the rehabilitation setting. It seems that patients with less Spiritual Belief showed more improvement in physical role, after acute rehabilitation.

Ishita Chatterjee - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • relation between materialistic value Spiritual oneness Belief and physical oneness Belief with happiness a study on young professionals
    Indian journal of positive psychology, 2015
    Co-Authors: Esha Chakraborty, Ishita Chatterjee
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    Over the last 15 years, psychologists have importantly contributed to this discussion by empirically investigating measures, behavioral correlates, and determinants of happiness. Websters (1913) simply defines it as -a: state of well-being characterized by emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy; b: a pleasurable or satisfying experience. Happiness, also called in positive psychology "subjective well-being," is commonly considered by positive psychologists the main way we can evaluate how well our life is going. Martin Seligman (2002), describes happiness as being based on three lives - the pleasurable life, the engaged life and the meaningful life. The better each of these lives is lived, the happier the person will be. Ruut Veenhoven describes happiness as "the degree in which an individual judges the overall quality of his life-as-a-whole favorably." Happiness is increasingly considered a proper measure of social progress and a goal of public policy (World Happiness Report, 2015).The core values of current consumer culture are materialistic and internalization of materialistic values as one's personal goals lead individuals to a greater commitment to buying and having material goods. A person with highly materialistic values believes that the acquisition of material good is a central life goal, prime indicator of success and key to happiness and self definition (Richins, 2004).Hellevik (2003) correlated yearly measures of well being in Norway with the extent to which the citizens exerted strong materialistic values each year, finding that the two were negatively associated. Australian researches from the 1990s found materialist values and a possessions-based definition of success share common characteristics with type-A behaviors, including competitiveness and aggression. Another study reported that the priority US adolescents placed on materialistic aims on a particular year was positively associated with yearly levels of adolescent psychopathology (Twenge et al., 2010). A meta-analysis over 200 independent samples revealed that the negative association between materialism and well-being robust across different operationalizations of the constructs and across different personal and cultural characteristics (Dittmar et al., 2013).Spiritual oneness is the Belief in the Spiritual interconnectedness and essential oneness of all phenomena, both living and nonliving; and a Belief that happiness depends on living in accord with this understanding. This is more strongly related to mystic experiences and Spirituality than to traditional religiousness. Spiritual oneness is positively associated with pro- environmental attitudes, but not with depression , anxiety or negative affect (Garfield, Drweck, Moore, Kortenkamp, & Gracz, 2014).Psychologist Mark Holder and colleagues (2008) at the University of British Columbia in Canada discovered in their research with children (9-12 years old) that 6.5 to 16.5 per cent of children's happiness is attributable to Spirituality. A research project by Dr. Michael Yi and Sian Cotton (2009) at the University of Cincinnati revealed links between Spirituality and happiness among teenagers. The researchers compared teenagers with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) with their healthy peers. Their analysis showed that while Spirituality helped all of the young cope with life's challenges, but it was especially helpful for the ones with IBD. A 2012 review by Koenig, of more than 326 peer-reviewed studies of mainly adult populations found that out of those 326 studies, 256 (79%) found only significant positive associations between Spirituality and well-being. Ellison's (1991) study was identified as a key study because it was one of the first studies to report on the relationship between Spiritual Beliefs, life satisfaction, and personal happiness. This study revealed that the positive influence of Spiritualism certainty on well-being is direct and substantial: individuals with strong Spiritual Belief report higher levels of life satisfaction, greater personal happiness, and fewer negative psychosocial consequences of traumatic life events. …

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  • Spiritual Beliefs near the end of life: a prospective cohort study of people with cancer receiving palliative care
    Psycho-oncology, 2013
    Co-Authors: Michael King, Henry Llewellyn, Baptiste Leurent, Faye Owen, Gerard Leavey, Adrian Tookman, Louise Jones
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    Objectives Despite growing research interest in Spirituality and health, and recommendations on the importance of Spiritual care in advanced cancer and palliative care, relationships between Spiritual Belief and psychological health near death remain unclear. We investigated (i) relationships between strength of Spiritual Beliefs and anxiety and depression, intake of psychotropic/analgesic medications and survival in patients with advanced disease; and (ii) whether the strength of Spiritual Belief changes as death approaches. Methods We conducted a prospective cohort study of 170 patients receiving palliative care at home, 97% of whom had a diagnosis of advanced cancer. Data on strength of Spiritual Beliefs (Beliefs and Values Scale [BVS]), anxiety and depression (Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale [HADS]), psychotropic/analgesic medications, daily functioning, global health and social support were collected at recruitment then 3 and 10 weeks later. Mortality data were collected up to 34 months after the first patient was recruited. Results Regression analysis showed a slight increase in strength of Spiritual Belief over time approaching statistical significance (+0.16 BVS points per week, 95% CI [−0.01, 0.33], p = 0.073). Belief was unrelated to anxiety and depression (−0.15 points decrease in HADS for 10 points increased in BVS (95% CI [−0.57, 0.27], p = 0.49) or consumption of psychotropic medication). There was a non-significant trend for decreasing analgesic prescription with increasing Belief. Mortality was higher over 6 months in participants with lower Belief at recruitment. Conclusion Results suggest that although religious and Spiritual Beliefs might increase marginally as death approaches, they do not affect levels of anxiety or depression in patients with advanced cancer. © 2013 The Authors. Psycho-Oncology published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

  • Spiritual Beliefs may affect outcome of bereavement prospective study
    BMJ, 2002
    Co-Authors: Kiri Walsh, Michael King, Adrian Tookman, Louise Jones, R Blizard
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    Objective To explore the relation between Spiritual Beliefs and resolution of bereavement.Design Prospective cohort study of people about to be bereaved with follow up continuing for 14 months after the death.Setting A Marie Curie centre for specialist palliative care in London.Participants 135 relatives and close friends of patients admitted to the centre with terminal illness.Main outcome measure Core bereavement items, a standardised measure of grief, measured 1, 9, and 14 months after the patients' death.Results People reporting no Spiritual Belief had not resolved their grief by 14 months after the death. Participants with strong Spiritual Beliefs resolved their grief progressively over the same period. People with low levels of Belief showed little change in die first nine months but thereafter resolved their grief. These differences approached significance in a repeated measures analysis of variance (F=2.42, P=0.058). Strength of Spiritual Belief remained an important predictor after the explanatory power of relevant confounding variables was controlled for. At 14 months the difference between the group with no Beliefs and the combined low and high Belief groups was 7.30 (95% confidence interval 0.86 to 13.73) points on the core bereavement items scale. Adjusting for confounders in the final model reduced this difference to 4.64 (1.04 to 10.32) points.Conclusion People who profess stronger Spiritual Beliefs seem to resolve their grief more rapidly and completely after the death of a close person dian do people with no Spiritual Beliefs.

  • The effect of Spiritual Beliefs on outcome from illness
    Social science & medicine (1982), 1999
    Co-Authors: Michael King, Peter Speck, Angela Thomas
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    We aimed to assess the role of Spiritual Belief in clinical outcome of patients nine months after hospital admission. Two hundred and fifty patients admitted to a London teaching hospital were recruited and followed up for nine months. Outcome measures were clinical status as recorded in the outpatient records and patients' self reported health status and Beliefs. A hundred and ninety-seven (79%) patients professed some form of Spiritual Belief, whether or not they engaged in a religious activity. Strength of Belief was lower in patients who were in a more serious clinical state on admission (F=3.099, d.f.=2 and 192, p=0.05). Case note information was available nine months later for 234 patients (94%) and contained useful information for judging clinical outcome in 189 (76%). Patients with stronger Spiritual Beliefs were 2.3 times more likely (CI=1.1-5.1, p=0.033) to remain the same or deteriorate clinically nine months later. Other predictors of poor outcome were male gender and sleep disturbance at time of admission to hospital. We conclude that a stronger Spiritual Belief is an independent predictor of poor outcome at nine months in patients admitted to two acute services of a London hospital. It is more predictive of outcome than physical state assessed by clinicians, or self-reported psychological state, at admission.