Spiritual Development among Residential Students of a Selected Nursing College in Kerala

Spirituality captures significant aspects of a person's perspective and has been well documented within many branches of knowledge as powerful and effective for psychosocial development. A descriptive exploratory cross sectional study was conducted to assess the spiritual development among the residents of a nursing college in Kerala. The researcher used a convenient sampling technique to recruit the participants prior to a psycho-spiritual enlightenment programme. Two hundred and eighty (280) female residents of the nursing hostel ranging in age from 17 to 27 years completed the spiritual assessment inventory rating scale. Result shows 92.1% have high spirituality and 7.9% have low spirituality. The researcher has analyzed different aspects of spirituality like Awareness (M=11.95, SD=0.211), Grandiosity (M=1.635, SD=0.482), Impression management (M=1.646, SD=0.478), Realistic acceptance (M=1.88, SD=0.314), instability (M=1.43, SD=0.495) and disappointment (M=1.31, SD= 0.49). Future research should investigate the effectiveness of spiritual enlightenment programmes and its association with psycho-spiritual development.