Open AccessExistential Well-Being and Health-Related Quality of Life in Young Adults
Author(s) -
Tara L Gallien,
Hui Bian,
Juhee Kim,
Ernest Tamanji Anye
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
american journal of health studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1945-4511
pISSN - 1090-0500
DOI - 10.47779/ajhs.2014.229
Subject(s) - ordinal scale , quality of life (healthcare) , scale (ratio) , psychology , well being , existentialism , young adult , clinical psychology , medicine , gerontology , developmental psychology , mathematics , statistics , geography , philosophy , cartography , epistemology , psychotherapist
The aim of this study was to determine the independent effect of existential well-being (EWB) and religious well-being (RWB), two dimensions of spiritual well-being, on various measures of health related quality of life (HQROL) in a sample of 804 young adults. Independent variables were measured using the EWB and RWB subscales of the Spiritual Well-Being Scale; dependent variables were measured using questions from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's HRQOL – 14 Measure. Linear and ordinal regression results found stronger associations of EWB, compared to RWB, with increased overall HQROL, more healthy days and fewer unhealthy days, and better general health status, respectively.