Religious involvement, spirituality and personal meaning for life: existential predictors of psychological wellbeing in community-residing and institutional care elders
Religious involvement, spirituality and personal meaning for life: existential predictors of psychological wellbeing in community-residing and institutional care elders
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10.1080/713649965
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发表时间：
2000-11-01
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3.4
通讯作者：
Fry, PS
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作者：
Fry, PS
心理健康的心理社会模型假设晚年的幸福感受到几个外部因素的影响，如社会资源，收入和负面生活事件。最近，老年学文献正在引起人们对存在主义因素（如宗教信仰、灵性和个人意义）在老年人心理健康中越来越有影响力的作用的关注。本研究探讨了独特的和综合贡献的宗教信仰，精神和个人意义的生活中的特定维度的福祉在社区居住和制度化的老年人样本的预测。使用分层回归分析，结果表明，个人意义，参与正式宗教，参与精神实践，宗教的重要性，从宗教中获得的舒适度，自我内心平静的感觉，以及宗教资源的可获得性是组合样本的幸福感的重要预测因素。然而，福利和先前的心理社会层面之间的关联模式，制度化的老年人更强。研究结果证实，个人意义，宗教信仰和精神的存在性措施比人口统计学变量或其他传统措施（如社会资源，身体健康或负面生活事件）对幸福感的差异贡献更大。宗教信仰，灵性和个人意义的存在主义结构的重要性，在帮助老年人超越老年压力和维持福祉进行了讨论。
The psychosocial model of mental health postulates that wellbeing in late life is significantly influenced by several externally generated factors such as social resources, income and negative life events. More recently, the gerontological literature is drawing attention to the increasingly influential role of existential factors such as religiosity, spirituality and personal meaning in the psychological wellbeing of older adults. This study examined the unique and combined contribution of specific dimensions of religiosity, spirituality and personal meaning in life as predictors of wellbeing in samples of community-residing and institutionalized older adults. Using hierarchical regression analyses, the results showed that personal meaning, involvement in formal religion, participation in spiritual practices, importance of religion, degree of comfort derived from religion, sense of inner peace with self, and accessibility to religious resources were significant predictors of wellbeing for the combined sample. The pattern of associations between wellbeing and the preceding psychosocial dimensions was, however, stronger for the institutionalized elders. The findings confirmed that existential measures of personal meaning, religiosity and spirituality contributed more significantly to the variance in wellbeing than did demographic variables or other traditional measures such as social resources, physical health or negative life events. The importance of existential constructs of religiosity, spirituality and personal meaning in helping older adults to transcend old age stresses and sustain wellbeing are discussed.