Abstract
This study set out to analyze the relationship among teachers' workplace spirituality, sense of meaning in life, and psychological well-being. Taking 610 teachers as its subjects, the study employed three scales: one to measure the subjects' sense of workplace spirituality, another to measure their sense of meaning in life, and a third to measure their sense of psychological well-being. These three scales were pretested and found to have good reliability and validity. The questionnaire data were analyzed using hierarchical regression in order to understand the explanatory power of the predictors(workplace spirituality and meaning in life) to dependent variable of psychological well-being. The results showed 62.70% explanatory power. According to the research findings, this study suggests that teachers should understand the importance of having workplace spirituality, of being psychologically sound and of feeling they have a meaningful life. Future studies may further explore the factors that influence teachers' sense of psychological well-being.
Highlights
Having a sense of a workplace spirituality, psychological well-being and a meaningful life are extremely important factors for an individual’s mental and physical development and workplace performance
Among the three demographic variables, only marital status is not statistically significant; the other two, gender (β=-.09, t = -2.24, p = .03) and service years (β = .10, t = 2.22, p=.03) are statistically significant, which shows that both variables have significant explanatory power
As for Model 2, after controlling the three demographic variables' explanatory power, we thrust the dimension of Workplace spirituality into the equation
Summary
Having a sense of a workplace spirituality, psychological well-being and a meaningful life are extremely important factors for an individual’s mental and physical development and workplace performance. The present study did adopt hierarchical regression as its analytical method Since this method puts different “blocks” into the equation in an order based on previous research results (Chiu, 2006) [21], the sequence must be decided first. There are three demographic variables (gender, marital status, and service years), and the central research question has to do with the sense of one’s workplace spirituality, in terms of a sense of one’s work being meaningful, a sense of community, and a sense of identification with one’s job, company, organization—in relation to the issue of one’s meaning in life—which again has three aspects—freedom of will, will to meaning, and the meaning of life. The three aspects of “workplace spirituality” were arranged in the second block, and the awareness of the “meaning in life” in the last block
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