2018
DOI: 10.3390/ijerph15122781
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Spirituality but not Religiosity Is Associated with Better Health and Higher Life Satisfaction among Adolescents

Abstract: Careful conceptualization and differentiation of both spirituality and religiosity is a necessary precondition for understanding the potential role they play in health, whether physical or mental. The aim of this study was to explore the associations of spirituality with self-rated health, health complaints, and life satisfaction of adolescents with the moderating role of religiosity. Data from the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children study conducted in 2014 in Slovakia were used. The final sample consiste… Show more

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“…Prayer, unlike our results, has been found to predict lower substance use too [43,64]. However, when predicting other variables such as health and life satisfaction, spirituality, and not religiosity, was found to be a good predictor [66]. Future studies should test whether, when adjusting for spirituality, the role of religiosity on substance use decreases or disappears.…”
Section: Substance Usecontrasting
confidence: 89%
“…Prayer, unlike our results, has been found to predict lower substance use too [43,64]. However, when predicting other variables such as health and life satisfaction, spirituality, and not religiosity, was found to be a good predictor [66]. Future studies should test whether, when adjusting for spirituality, the role of religiosity on substance use decreases or disappears.…”
Section: Substance Usecontrasting
confidence: 89%
“…Yet, not everyone that defines themselves as being spiritual belongs to a religious institution, nor is belonging to a religious institution a requirement for spirituality [ 16 ]. While studies emphasize the benefits of spirituality for better health [ 17 , 18 ], including HF [ 8 , 10 , 11 ], it remains unknown whether belonging to a religious institution without a spiritual component, is sufficient to obtain the same benefits in HF patients. In fact, in their longitudinal study in a national sample of African Americans, Roth and colleagues [ 19 ] concluded that “simply attending religious services will not, by itself, achieve health benefits” (p. 423), pointing to the necessity to consider the role of other variables.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In the present study an adapted 15-item version of the scale [24] was used. Each item was evaluated on a six-degree Likert scale graded according to the intensity of experiencing the observed phenomena, ranging from "many times a day (1) to "never" (6). A higher intensity of experience corresponds to higher levels of spiritual experience.…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Studies mostly show a positive impact of both R/S on healthy attitudes and behavior [4,5]. Moreover, associations can also be found between R/S and self-rated health and life satisfaction as well as both physical and mental health [6].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%