Spiritual intimacy, marital intimacy, and physical/psychological well-being: Spiritual meaning as a mediator.

Self-esteem, spiritual well-being, and intimacy: a comparison among couples using NFP and oral contraceptives.

The purpose of this study was to compare the intimacy, spiritual well being (SWB), and self-esteem of couples using natural family planning (NFP) with those couples using oral contraceptives (OCs). 22 couples who were using the Creighton Model Ovulation Method of NFP for 1 year to avoid pregnancy were matched with 22 couples who were using OCs for a least a 1-year period and administered a SWB...

Sanctification of marriage and spiritual intimacy predicting observed marital interactions across the transition to parenthood.

We examined whether 164 heterosexual, married couples' reports of the sanctification of their marriage and their spiritual intimacy predicted their observed behavior across the transition to parenthood, using highly conservative statistical strategies to control for time-invariant factors and time-varying factors (marital love, collaborative communication skills) that could explain away these l...

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...

Emotional Intelligence and Spiritual Well-Being

The role of marital intimacy and spiritual intelligence in predicting pain after elective cesarean section surgery

 The purpose of this study was to determine the role of marital intimacy and spiritual intelligence in predicting pain after elective cesarean section surgery. This research was a descriptive-correlation type. The statistical population of the study consisted of all women who underwent elective cesarean section in Qom governmental  hospitals during the summer of 1397 who were selected by non-ra...