International Journal of Advanced Research in Management and Social Sciences
  • Year: 2016
  • Volume: 5
  • Issue: 4

Role of spirituality on mental well-being among adults

  • Author:
  • Masaud Ansari
  • Total Page Count: 15
  • Page Number: 296 to 310

Research Scholar, Department of Psychology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh

Online published on 20 May, 2017.

Abstract

An attempt was made to study the role of spirituality on Mental Well-being among adults. Sample of the study consisted of 100 post graduate students (50 male and 50 female) participants. Mental wellbeing scale developed by Warwick Edinburgh (2006) and Spirituality Attitude Scale developed by Akbar Husain, Shahin Zehra and Musaddiq Jahan (2015) was used for data collection. The data were analyzed, and Pearson product moment correlation was applied to study the relationship between spirituality and mental well-being after that linear regression was used to determine the role of Spirituality on Mental well-being. Further t-test was administered to examine the difference between mental health as well as well-being of Male and female post graduate students. The findings were showed that spirituality and mental well-being positively correlated to each other and spirituality has its significant contribution on mental well-being among both genders. It was also found that there was significant difference between spirituality as well as mental well-being of male and female post graduate students. Well-being is matter of concern for an individual by which he/she can lead a qualitative life on which the development of the society is based. The person who has the better mental well-being can contribute to the society in well mannered as well as in the productive way.

Keywords

Spirituality, Mental Well-being, Post-Graduate Students