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| Published: December 25, 2015
Relationship between Spiritual Practices and Psychological Well-Being among Hindus
Research Scholar, Department of Psychology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh
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DIP: 18.01.086/20150301
DOI: 10.25215/0301.086
ABSTRACT
Spiritual people perform some spiritual practices for attaining psychological well-being, mental peace, and different types of healings and for many other purposes. The main aim of the present study is to investigate the relationship between spiritual practices and psychological well-being among Hindus. Spiritual practices positively affect psychological well-being. In the present study, Spiritual Practices Scale-Hindus (SPS-H) developed by Singh and Husain (2014) and Psychological Well-being Scale developed by Prakash and Bhogle (1995) were administered on 130 Hindus (89 male and 41 female). They were drawn from different temples situated in Aligarh and Agra districts of U.P. Data was analysed by using Pearson product moment correlation to examine the relationship between the scores obtained on the spiritual practices and psychological well-being scales. The Significant positive relationship was found between spiritual practices and psychological well-being among Hindus.
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This is an Open Access Research distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any Medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
© 2015 I R Singh
Received: September 28, 2015; Revision Received: October 04, 2015; Accepted: December 25, 2015
Ruchi Singh @ ruchisinghamu1989@gmail.com
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ISSN 2348-5396
ISSN 2349-3429
18.01.086/20150301
10.25215/0301.086
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Published in Volume 03, Issue 1, October-December, 2015