Spiritual Intimacy, Marital Intimacy, and Physical/Psychological Well-Being: Spiritual Meaning as a Mediator.
Spiritual Intimacy, Marital Intimacy, and Physical/Psychological Well-Being: Spiritual Meaning as a Mediator.
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DOI：
10.1037/rel0000062
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发表时间：
2016-08
影响因子：
2.4
通讯作者：
Martin LR
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作者：
Holland KJ;Lee JW;Marshak HH;Martin LR
亲密关系是婚姻关系、精神关系的重要组成部分，也是幸福感的一个因素，但很少有研究同时考察精神亲密关系、婚姻亲密关系和幸福感之间的联系。在一项对 5,720 名 29-100 岁已婚成年人（M = 58.88，SD = 12.76，59% 女性）的横断面研究中，使用结构方程模型来检验潜在变量（精神亲密感、婚姻亲密感、精神意义和幸福感）之间的关联。所有参与者均来自复临信徒健康研究 2、生物心理社会宗教与健康研究。在原始结构模型中，精神亲密感、婚姻亲密感和幸福感这三个潜在变量之间的直接关联均为显着正相关，表明精神亲密感、婚姻亲密感和幸福感之间存在显着关系。当精神意义被添加为中介变量时，精神亲密与婚姻亲密和幸福的直接联系变得弱负面。然而，精神亲密感与婚姻亲密感和幸福感的间接联系通过精神意义具有强烈的积极意义。这表明，精神亲密感、婚姻亲密感和幸福感之间的关系主要是精神亲密感给婚姻和幸福感带来的意义的结果，如果没有精神意义，更大的灵性可能会对一个人的婚姻和幸福感产生负面影响。这些发现表明，精神意义在理解精神亲密与婚姻亲密和幸福的关系中处于中心地位。
Intimacy is an essential part of marital relationships, spiritual relationships, and is also a factor in well-being, but there is little research simultaneously examining the links among spiritual intimacy, marital intimacy, and well-being. Structural equation modeling was used to examine associations among the latent variables—spiritual intimacy, marital intimacy, spiritual meaning, and well-being—in a cross-sectional study of 5,720 married adults aged 29–100 years (M = 58.88, SD = 12.76, 59% female). All participants were from the Adventist Health Study-2, Biopsychosocial Religion and Health Study. In the original structural model, all direct associations between the three latent variables of spiritual intimacy, marital intimacy, and well-being were significantly positive indicating that there was a significant relationship among spiritual intimacy, marital intimacy, and well-being. When spiritual meaning was added as a mediating variable, the direct connections of spiritual intimacy to marital intimacy and to well-being became weakly negative. However, the indirect associations of spiritual intimacy with marital intimacy and with well-being were then strongly positive through spiritual meaning. This indicates that the relationship among spiritual intimacy, marital intimacy, and well-being was primarily a result of the meaning that spiritual intimacy brought to one’s marriage and well-being, and that without spiritual meaning greater spirituality could negatively influence one’s marriage and well-being. These findings suggest the central place of spiritual meaning in understanding the relationship of spiritual intimacy to marital intimacy and to well-being.