Abstract
University students' spiritual wellbeing has been shown to be associated with quality, satisfaction, and joy of life. This study tested the relationship between spiritual wellbeing and symptoms of psychological disorders (i.e., depression, anxiety and stress) among Chinese university students in Hong Kong. Cross-sectional data were collected from N = 500 students (aged 17-24; 279 women). The participants were asked to complete the Spiritual Health and Life-Orientation Measure (SHALOM) to evaluate the status of their spiritual wellbeing in the personal and communal, environmental, and transcendental domains, and the Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale-21 (DASS-21) to assess their emotional states of depression, anxiety and stress. All domains of spiritual wellbeing were negatively associated with psychological distress. Hierarchical Multiple Regression showed that together the three domains of spirituality explained 79.9%, 71.3% and 85.5% of the variance in students' depression, anxiety and stress respectively. The personal and communal domain of spiritual wellbeing was the strongest predictor of psychological distress.
Highlights
Cross-sectional study of the relationship between the spiritual wellbeing and psychological health among university studentsThe drug and alcohol addiction, self-harm, and suicide were getting worse for college students, especially for those with family problems during the transition to college [1].The developmental transition from adolescence to emerging adulthood is one in which there can be considerable decreases in psychological health [2,3,4]
On the basis of the score ranges from the DASS-21 manual, the mean scores of depression for all students were found at nearly the mild level (8.90 ± 2.61), the mean anxiety scores were at a normal level (6.53 ± 1.77), and the mean stress scores were at a normal level (12.94 ± 3.84)
In the current study we examined whether spiritual wellbeing was associated with better psychological health during this period
Summary
Cross-sectional study of the relationship between the spiritual wellbeing and psychological health among university students. The drug and alcohol addiction, self-harm, and suicide were getting worse for college students, especially for those with family problems during the transition to college [1].The developmental transition from adolescence to emerging adulthood is one in which there can be considerable decreases in psychological health [2,3,4]. Mental health concerns are certainly evident among university students in Hong Kong. In the academic year 2016–2017, over 920 university students in Hong Kong sought counselling. The funder had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript
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