Aspects of Religiosity and Their Relationships To Measures of Quality of Life
Abstract
Religion in past research has been found to be a significant predictor of quality of life, but previous measures used do not appear to explore the fullness of either factors of life. Two hundred and twenty two undergraduate students at a southern university were given a 70 item questionnaire measuring 13 religious and 10 quality of life variables. Results from Pearson r correlations, chi square tests of significance, and gamma correlations yielded significance (p(0.05) for many of the relationships. The religious factors found to have the greatest predictive value of quality of life values were religious happiness, spiritual wellbeing, spiritual importance, and religious experience, all of which are meaning, as opposed to belief and belonging, variables. Quality of life measures best predicted by religiosity were general happiness and purpose in life. These results may be confounded by the high relgiosity scores of the sample population.
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Program year: 1990/1991Digitized from print original stored in HDR
Citation
Honeycutt, Todd C. (1991). Aspects of Religiosity and Their Relationships To Measures of Quality of Life. University Undergraduate Fellow. Available electronically from https : / /hdl .handle .net /1969 .1 /CAPSTONE -AlexanderV _1977.