The Korean Journal of Health Psychology
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Spiritual Well-being and Social Anxiety among High School Students
Abstract
The present study examines the relation of spiritual well-being to social anxiety among high school students, in order to provide useful implications for psychologists or health practitioners who are involved with the intervention of the social anxiety. The participants were 496 Korean high school students (239 males and 257 females) whose ages ranged from 14 to 18 (M=15.97, SD=.83). The psychological tests used in this research included the following: the Korean version of the Spiritual Well-Being Scale, Social Anxiety Scale for Adolescents (SAS-A). Korean Social Anxiety Scale for Children and Adolescents, Jerusalem & Schwarzer's General Self-Efficacy Scale, and Spielberger's State-Trait Anxiety Inventory. Results indicated that female students or students who belong to the religious groups showed higher spiritual well-being than male students or students who do not belong to the religious groups. Students who showed lower level of spiritual well-being are likely to have higher social anxiety, in both interpersonal anxiety and performance anxiety, than those who showed moderate or higher level of spiritual well-being. Although religious well-being has negative relation to performance anxiety, especially existential well-being have very significant negative relations to both interpersonal anxiety and performance anxiety. Step-wise regression analyses revealed that existential well-being, self-efficacy, and trait anxiety are significant independent predictors of both interpersonal anxiety and performance anxiety, and existential well-being accounted for the most variance, approximately 10%, of performance anxiety. These findings suggest biopsychsocialspiritual model to understand mental health or social adjustment appropriately, and to be concerned about clients' religiosity and spiritual well-being as a health practitioner.
- keywords
- 청소년, 특성불안, 자기효능감, 사회불안, 영적안녕, adolescents, trait anxiety, self-efficacy, social anxiety, spiritual well-being
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