Spirituality but not religiosity is associated with better health and higher life satisfaction among adolescents
Result description
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 consisted of 658 adolescents (mean age = 15.37; 50.6% boys). Data regarding spirituality, religiosity, self-rated health, health complaints, and life satisfaction were obtained. Binary logistic models revealed spirituality to be associated with self-rated health, health complaints, and life satisfaction. A moderating role of religiosity was not confirmed. The presented findings indicate the need to distinguish between the concepts of religiosity and spirituality in connection with subjective health and life satisfaction.
Keywords
life satisfactionhealth complaintsself-rated healthreligiosityspirituality
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
Alternative codes found
RIV/61989592:15410/18:73589512 RIV/61989592:15510/18:73589512
Result on the web
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Spirituality but not religiosity is associated with better health and higher life satisfaction among adolescents
Original language description
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 consisted of 658 adolescents (mean age = 15.37; 50.6% boys). Data regarding spirituality, religiosity, self-rated health, health complaints, and life satisfaction were obtained. Binary logistic models revealed spirituality to be associated with self-rated health, health complaints, and life satisfaction. A moderating role of religiosity was not confirmed. The presented findings indicate the need to distinguish between the concepts of religiosity and spirituality in connection with subjective health and life satisfaction.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
JSC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
30304 - Public and environmental health
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2018
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
ISSN
1661-7827
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
15
Issue of the periodical within the volume
12
Country of publishing house
CH - SWITZERLAND
Number of pages
9
Pages from-to
1-9
UT code for WoS article
000456527000172
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85058352708
Basic information
Result type
JSC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
OECD FORD
Public and environmental health
Year of implementation
2018