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Spirituality, Religiosity, and Subjective Quality of Life

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Subjective quality of life (QOL) is a broad term that includes those factors that are associated with personal perspectives on self-functioning, such as satisfaction with life. QOL research is interested in identifying those processes that impact how individuals come to find centering, satisfaction, and personal coherence in their lives. Increasingly, researchers are turning to religious and spiritual constructs (the numinous) as potential predictors of QOL and finding that numinous qualities do make significant, unique contributions to QOL over and above other personality and social constructs. The purpose of this chapter is threefold: first, to provide a general overview of the relations between spirituality and religiousness and QOL; second, to present several of the key measurement scales that have been involved in this research. These scales were selected because of their wide spread use in the field and psychometric strength. Finally, to overview the key conceptual and methodological issues that confront the field today (i.e., need for incremental validity studies, the use of longitudinal and cross-observer data, and the development and testing of causal models that outline how numinous constructs impact QOL outcomes). Attention to these issues should provide a direction for moving research forward in this field.

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Piedmont, R.L., Friedman, P.H. (2012). Spirituality, Religiosity, and Subjective Quality of Life. In: Land, K., Michalos, A., Sirgy, M. (eds) Handbook of Social Indicators and Quality of Life Research. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2421-1_14

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