Religious spiritual well-being: results from Muslim Iranian clinical and non-clinical samples by age, sex and group. Issue 1 (2nd January 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Dadfar, Mahboubeh; Lester, David; Turan, Yahya; Beshai, James A.; Unterrainer, Human-Friedrich
• Is Part Of: Journal of religion, spirituality & aging. Volume 33:Issue 1(2021)
• Page Start: 16
• Page End: 37
• Publication Date: 2021-01-02
• Subjects: Religious spiritual well-being -- Muslim -- Iranians -- age groups -- gender; Church work with older people -- Periodicals; Older people -- Religious life -- Periodicals; Older people -- Psychology -- Periodicals; Older people -- Social conditions -- Periodicals; Gerontology -- Periodicals; 261.8
• DOI: 10.1080/15528030.2020.1818161
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1552-8030

Abstract

ABSTRACT: The aim of the present study was to compare religious spiritual well-being between three Muslim Iranian samples: old and middle-aged adults, university students and psychiatric outpatients. The sample was a convenience sample of 561 individuals in Tehran, Iran, who completed the Multidimensional Inventory for Religious Spiritual Well-Being (MI-RSWB 48). The psychiatric outpatients had lower General Religiosity (GR), Hope Transcendent (HT), Transcendent component and total scores than the community residents, but higher Forgiveness (FO) scores. For the non-clinical females, the community residents had lower Hope Immanent (HI), GR, Connectedness (CO), Immanent component, Transcendent component and total scores and higher HT scores. We conclude that religious spiritual well-being differs between Muslim Iranian clinical and non-clinical samples, and also by age.