There has been a growing recognition of the need to understand the role of spirituality in ethnically diverse populations in social work and other helping professions. Although researchers are increasingly examining ethnic variations in prevalence rates, treatment utilization, and treatment outcomes for individuals with substance abuse problems, limited research attention has been focused on th...

A previous study on university students reported that personal, communal, and environmental spiritual well-being contributed to happiness over and above personality but that relating with God did not. In this study, happiness was assessed using a modified Oxford Happiness Inventory. Personality scores were obtained using forms of Eysenck’s Personality Questionnaire. Four domains of spiritual we...

Managing stressful situations in the workplace is a challenge for all, especially healthcare workers in emergency settings. The ancient practice of silently repeating a mantram or mantra—a word or phrase with spiritual meaning—has been applied to our modern day living as an innovative form of stress management that is portable, immediate, inexpensive, invisible, and nontoxic. Preliminary studie...

BACKGROUND Understanding the relationships between social and psychological determinants of health-related quality of life (HRQOL) is a critical step in developing effective screening tools and targeted interventions for psychosocial care. OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between dispositional optimism and HRQOL in newly diagnosed adult cancer patients. ME...

This study was performed to evaluate the applicability of the ego-integrity model for home residing elderly to elderly patients in long-term care hospitals. In order to identify the predictors of ego-integrity in elderly patients, a regression analysis was conducted. Results showed that higher age, lower pain levels, higher levels of fantasy and perspective taking, and lower personal distress l...

The current study examined the role of spiritual well-being at Time 1 (T1) in satisfaction with singlehood six months later a sample 335 Polish single adults aged 19–51 (M = 32.23, SD 6.44). analyses provided evidence suppression effect 2 (T2) on link between T1 and T2. Lower changes over were related to higher subsequent singlehood. findings imply that greater may be an important, although wea...

Typical trajectories of physical decline have been described for people with end-stage disease. It is possible that social, psychological, and spiritual levels of distress may also follow characteristic patterns. We sought to identify and compare changes in the psychological, social, and spiritual needs of people with end-stage disease during their last year of life by synthesizing data from tw...

Ancient Indian Literature considers health as a broad and global concept represented by from independent dimensions of physical, psychological, social and spiritual well being (Charak Samhita,1949). This conceptualisation of health is even broader than the modern concept of health as accepted by WHO which aims at restoring "a state of complete physical, mental and social well being". Till the t...