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Religious involvement, spirituality and personal meaning for life
— existential predictors of psychological wellbeing in community-residing and institutional care | | Author(s) | P S Fry |
| Journal title | Aging & Mental Health, vol 4, no 4, November 2000 |
| Pages | pp 375-387 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Spiritual characteristics [elderly] ; Religion ; Well being ; Living in the community ; Residents [care homes] ; Canada. |
| Annotation | The psychosocial model of mental health postulates that well-being in late life is significantly influenced by several externally generated factors such as social resources, income, and negative life events. Recent gerontological literature has drawn attention to the increasingly influential role of existential factors. This Canadian study examined the unique and combined contribution of specific dimensions of religiosity, spirituality, and personal meaning in life as predictors of well-being in samples of community-living or institutionalised older people. The study showed that personal meaning, religion, sense of inner peace with self, and accessibility to religious resources were significant predictors of well-being for the combined sample. The pattern of associations between well-being and the preceding psychosocial dimensions was, however, stronger for institutionalised older people. These existential measures also contributed more significantly to well-being than more usual measures such as physical health. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-001214214 A |
| Classmark | EX: TR: D:F:5HH: K4: KX: 7S |
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