Cross-sectional study of the relationship between the spiritual wellbeing and psychological health among University Students
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Document Type
Journal Article
Publication Date
2021
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0249702
Abstract
University students’ spiritual wellbeing has been shown to be associated with quality, satisfaction, and joy of life. This study tested the relationship between spiritual wellbeing and symptoms of psychological disorders (i.e., depression, anxiety and stress) among Chinese university students in Hong Kong. Cross-sectional data were collected from N = 500 students (aged 17–24; 279 women). The participants were asked to complete the Spiritual Health and Life-Orientation Measure (SHALOM) to evaluate the status of their spiritual wellbeing in the personal and communal, environmental, and transcendental domains, and the Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale-21 (DASS-21) to assess their emotional states of depression, anxiety and stress. All domains of spiritual wellbeing were negatively associated with psychological distress. Hierarchical Multiple Regression showed that together the three domains of spirituality explained 79.9%, 71.3% and 85.5% of the variance in students’ depression, anxiety and stress respectively. The personal and communal domain of spiritual wellbeing was the strongest predictor of psychological distress.
Source Publication
PLOS
Volume Number
16
Issue Number
4
Recommended Citation
Pong, J. (2021). Cross-sectional study of the relationship between the spiritual wellbeing and psychological health among University Students. PLOS, 16 (4). http://dx.doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0249702