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Deconstructing spiritual well‐being: existential well‐being and HRQOL in cancer survivors
Author(s) -
Edmondson Donald,
Park Crystal L.,
Blank Thomas O.,
Fenster Juliane R.,
Mills Mary Alice
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
psycho‐oncology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.41
H-Index - 137
eISSN - 1099-1611
pISSN - 1057-9249
DOI - 10.1002/pon.1197
Subject(s) - existentialism , psychosocial , quality of life (healthcare) , construct (python library) , well being , psychology , mental health , multilevel model , clinical psychology , spirituality , gerontology , psychotherapist , medicine , alternative medicine , mathematics , statistics , philosophy , epistemology , pathology , computer science , programming language
We demonstrate the utility of partitioning the spiritual well‐being (SpWB) construct into spiritual and religious components using results from a study of the relationship of existential well‐being to health‐related quality of life (HRQOL) in a sample of 237 cancer survivors. Existential and religious well‐being were measured using the FACIT‐Sp‐12 and HRQOL was measured using the mental and physical component scores of the SF‐12. In hierarchical linear regression analyses, existential well‐being fully mediated religious well‐being's effect on HRQOL and explained unique variance in both the mental and physical HRQOL domains, controlling for demographic, disease, and psychosocial variables previously shown to impact HRQOL. Religious well‐being was not predictive of HRQOL. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.