The Korean Journal of Health Psychology
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- P-ISSN1229-070X
- E-ISSN2713-9581
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Religious Orientation, Fundamentalism, Spiritual Well-being, and Subjective Well-being among Religious People
Abstract
This study aims to investigate the relationships between religious orientations, religious fundamentalism, spiritual well-being, and subjective well-being among religious people, and to examine the interaction of religious orientations and the religious fundamentalism on their well-being. The participants were 317 religious people who were living in Seoul and the suburb, whose age were ranged from 20 to 81 (M=52.00, SD=11.16). The psychological tests used in this research included the following: I/E-R, the Religious Fundamentalism Scale, the Spiritual Well-Being Scale, Emotion Frequency Test, Satisfaction with Life Scale, and Subjective Happiness Scale. Results revealed that the religious orientation was closely correlated with spiritual well-being, and it was also positively correlated with subjective well-being of religious people. However, extrinsic religious orientation with social conformity was not significantly correlated with spiritual well-being and subjective well-being, and inversely, it was negatively related to feeling of meaningfulness of existential well-being. Religious fundamentalism was positively correlated with subjective well-being, as well as spiritual well-being. Yet, results of stepwise regression analyses indicated that religious fundamentalism, as it was adjusted by intrinsic religious orientation, was positively related to negative emotion and negatively to subjective happiness. Spiritual well-being, which is related to subjective well-being, was a satisfying feeling of existential well-being. Moreover, if religious well-being was adjusted by satisfying feeling of existential well-being, it was negatively related to life satisfaction. On the other hand, interaction effects of religious orientation and the religious fundamentalism on spiritual well-being and subjective well-being. Simple main effect analyses revealed that people with higher religious orientation showed higher spiritual well-being than those with lower religious orientation in only people with lower religious fundamentalism; whereas people with higher religious orientation showed higher subjective well-being than those with lower religious orientation in only people with higher religious fundamentalism. This finding suggests that religiosity variables with interactions could affect human well-being.
- keywords
- 종교지향, 종교적 원리주의, 영성, 웰빙, 행복, religious orientation, religious fundamentalism, spirituality, well-being, happiness
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