Cultural understanding of ‘spiritual well-being’ and ‘psychological well-being’ among Sinhalese Buddhists in Sri Lanka

The predictive role of psychological capital, psychological hardiness and spiritual intelligence in students’ psychological well-being

Psychological well-being refers to the experienced quality of life and reflects optimal psychological functioning and experience. We evaluate our life as either good or bad and if the evaluation provides us the sense of achieving one’s full psychological potential then it leads to psychological well-being. The aim of this study is to investigate the variables of psychological capital, psycholog...

Domains of spiritual well-being and development and validation of the Spiritual Well-Being Questionnaire

Fisher (1998) proposed a spiritual well-being model, comprising the domains of personal, communal, environmental and transcendental well-being, and a single global spiritual well-being dimension. This paper reports on four studies aimed at testing Fisher’s theoretical model, and establishing the validity and reliability of a new self-rating questionnaire (Spiritual Well-Being Questionnaire; SWB...

Religiosity and Psychological Well-Being

The aim of the current study was to explore the link between religiosity and psychological wellbeing in a model of Pakistani Muslims. Earlier research has acknowledged a positive relationship between the two factors. The sample (65 men and 85 women) with an age range from 18 to 60 years was chosen. Religiosity was operationalized as religious gatherings attendance, belief salience and frequency...

Can Spiritual Well-Being Predict Successful Aging?

Objectives: Successful aging is a positive, inner feeling and satisfaction with the past and present lives. Thus, the study was conducted to determine the predicting factors of the successful aging in a sample of Iranian elderly. Materials and methods: This cross-sectional and descriptive-analytic study was conducted on 291 elderly people in Qazvin in 2018 selected using two-stage cluster samp...

Understanding Human Well - being