Erschienen in:
01.08.2014 | Original Paper
The Spiritual Well-Being of Elderly People: A Study of a French Sample
verfasst von:
Lucy Velasco-Gonzalez
, Liliane Rioux
Erschienen in:
Journal of Religion and Health
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Ausgabe 4/2014
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Abstract
The aim of our research was to identify predictors of the spiritual well-being of elderly people. More specifically, we postulated that subjective well-being and its components would be predictors of spiritual well-being, and more so than age and health status. We invited 133 people aged 60–95 to complete a questionnaire that included the French adaptation (Velasco and Rioux in Revue Canadienne des Sciences du Comportement 41(2):102–128,
2009) of Paloutzian and Ellison’s (Loneliness: A sourcebook of current theory, research and therapy, Wiley-Interscience, New York,
1982)
Spiritual Well-
Being Scale, Ryff and Essex’s (Psychol Aging 7:507–517,
1992)
Psychological Well-
Being Scale (translated by Lapierre and Desrochers
1997), Salamon and Conte’s (Meas Eval Guid 15(3):194–200,
1982)
Life Satisfaction in the Elderly Scale (validated by Rousseau and Dubé in
1993), and the French version (Blais et al. in Can J Behav Sci 21:210–223,
1989) of Diener et al. (J Pers Assess 49:71–75,
1985)
Satisfaction with Life Scale. The results only partially confirm our hypothesis, because only satisfaction with life as a whole and two items in “
Life Satisfaction in the Elderly Scale” make it possible to predict the spiritual well-being of elderly people. Moreover, neither health status nor age was found to be a significant predictor of spiritual well-being. This research helps understand better the links between the concept of spiritual well-being and that of subjective well-being of elderly people and could contribute to the development of a tool that could take into account the spiritual well-being of elderly people, whether they be believers, agnostic, or atheist.