Structure of spirituality among high-school students differs depending on relationship with someone or something Greater (RSG)

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ID21623503
AuthorsKensho Ohata (Saitama Prefectural Kumagaya Girls High School), Takuya Gonokami (Saitama Prefectural Kumagaya Girls High School), Shunpei Kinjo (Saitama Prefectural Kumagaya Girls High School), Sadao Kato (Saitama Prefectural Kumagaya Girls High School), Satoshi Morita (0000-0002-4344-3317, Kyoto University), Kunihiko Kobayashi (0000-0003-4319-7512, Saitama International Medical Center, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume42
Issue30
Pages26709-26719
Publication date2023-10-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCurrent Psychology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1046-1310 • E-ISSN: 1936-4733
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1007/s12144-022-03694-8
OpenAlexW4297544423
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited21

Purpose: To investigate the structure of spirituality among teenagers, who live in a secular country, employing a QoL assessment, the EORTC QLQ-SWB32. Methods: Japanese high-school students, 15 to 17 years of age, answered EORTC QLQ-SWB32, which had 5 scales: Relationships with Others, Relationship with Self (RS), Existential, Relationship with Someone or Something Greater (RSG), and Change. It had “skip” items 22 and 23 (score range:0–200), which distinguished non-believers (score:0), light believers (score:33–66), and deep believers (score:100–200). Cronbach’s alpha and principal component analysis (PCA) were investigated. Correlations between item-32 (global spiritual well-being (SWB)) scores and 5 scale-scores were estimated. Global SWB scores were compared among groups via one-way ANOVA. Results: Among 283 male students, there were 142 non-believers (50%), 98 light believers (35%), and 43 deep believers (15%). Cronbach’s alpha values of the five scales were above 0.7 for deep believers. However, RSG did not show internal consistency for non-believers and light believers. PCA showed that the RSG items constructed a RSG scale for deep believers but did not make any scale for non-believers and light believers. The correlation coefficients between global SWB and RSG increased in order of non-believers ( r = 0.295), light believers ( r = 0.399), and deep believers ( r = 0.559). RS correlated with global SWB in non-believers and light believers ( r p = 0.0312). Conclusion: The structure of spirituality among high-school students differs depending on RSG. And RS might be critical for students without sense of RSG. Trial registration number: This observation study was retrospectively registered on 2nd November 2021 (UMIN 000045962)

Cartography · Correlation · Cronbach's alpha · Geography · Internal consistency · Psychometrics · Spirituality · Clinical Psychology · Health and Wellbeing Research · Medicine · Psychology · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology · Resilience and Mental Health · Social Psychology

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