Relationship between Self-Reported Peace of Mind and Self-Reported Spirituality during the Covid-19 Pandemic Crisis

Abstract

Peace of mind is a feeling of calm or not being worried. Bhatnagar (2019) wrote that “Peace of mind is free of costs, but only for positive people; whereas it's most expensive things for the negative people.” The conditions aroused due to the covid-19 pandemic affecting mental peace. Therefore the researcher decided to know the Relationship between Self-reported peace of mind and self-reported spirituality during the covid-19 pandemic crisis. Rigorous review of related literature revealed that there is no study with reference to the association between peace of mind and spirituality during covid-19 pandemic crisis. The presented study was related to explain the present condition i.e. "What is" therefore the survey method under descriptive research method was used for the presented research study. A survey form, constructed by the researcher on Google form, was used to collect data. The survey form consisted of the items related to the demographic data and a statement related to self-reported peace of mind and self-reported spirituality. There were two options of the items regarding the self-reported peace of mind and self-reported spirituality Agree and Disagree. The language medium of the survey form was Hindi. The data was collected between 25th of April 2020 to 20th of June 2020. The Google survey form link was distributed to various WhatsApp groups and individuals with a request to complete the survey and distribute it to others. In this way a total of 120 respondents from Lucknow district (India) fully completed the survey form. After collection, the data was organized and statistically treated with the help of frequencies, percentage, χ2 (chi-square) test to study the self-reported peace of mind with respect to age, the level of education, employment status, residential status and φ (phi) coefficient measure of the association between two dichotomous variables i.e. self-reported peace of mind and self-reported spirituality. The study showed that Self-reported peace of mind of the individuals during crisis of the covid-19 pandemic was not differing with respect to age, the level of education, employment status, and residential status and, it was strongly associated with the self-reported spirituality.