Prediction of Spiritual Happiness Based on Meaning in Life and Psychological Capital with the Mediation of Students' Sense of Coherence during the Covid-19 Epidemic
Journal of Pizhūhish dar dīn va Salāmat (i.e., Research on Religion & Health),
Vol. 10 No. 1 (2024),
12 October 2024
,
Page 96-109
https://doi.org/10.22037/jrrh.v10i1.40087
Abstract
Background and Objective: Spiritual happiness is one of the types of positive emotions that play an important role in helping people adapt to the situation in stressful situations. Also, the meaning of life and psychological capitals are also variables that form the basis of effective, directed and continuous coping of individuals with difficult conditions. Therefore, based on this, the current research was conducted with the aim of predicting spiritual happiness based on meaning in life and psychological capital, with the mediation of students' sense of coherence during the Covid-19 epidemic.
Methods: The present study is a descriptive survey-based study involving the use of structural equation modeling. The statistical population included all male and female undergraduate students (day and night) of Isfahan University in the academic year 2020-2021. There were 360students from this community who volunteered to participate in the research. In this study, the data were collected using a questionnaire of demographic characteristics, Chirian & Afrooz’s spiritual happiness questionnaire, Steger et al.’s meaning in life questionnaire, Luthans psychological capital questionnaire and Antonovsky’s sense of coherence questionnaire. The collected data were analyzed on Smart PLS2 and using structural equation modeling. In the present study, all ethical considerations were observed and the authors reported no conflict of interest.
Results: The results showed that meaning in life and psychological capital with the mediation of sense of coherence has a positive and significant relationship with spiritual happiness (P<0.00).
Conclusion: Having spiritual vitality plays an important role in helping people to face the life challenges. Meaning in life and psychological capitals create a source of internal resistance that can be effective in creating spiritual vitality in students in interaction with the sense of coherence.
- Covid-19
- Happiness
- Mean
- Psychological capital
- Sense of coherence
- Spirituality
- Students
- 2024-03-03 (2)
- 2024-03-03 (1)
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