Role Of Spirituality, Mindfulness, Social Support And Psychological Wellbeing Among Elderly
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Aging is a natural and universal phenomenon in the entire world. In individual’s whole life span “AGING” is considered as that period, where they spend one third part of their life in gaining various experiences (both either they are good or bad). The purpose of the study was to examine the role of spirituality, mindfulness and social support in psychological well-being among elderly. The sample of the present study was conducted on Total 200 elderly people with purposive sampling technique, within the age range from 60 to 75 years (Age Mean = 68.80, S.D. = 3.69). Sample was taken from various places of Varanasi and Chandauli district of Uttar Pradesh. Researchers used self-report questionnaires for taking responses of participants for studied variables. Correlational research design was used. The relevant psychometric tools were used to measure the different variables in the present research work. The Spiritual Personality Inventory-Revised (Husain & Anas, 2018), Five-facet mindfulness questionnaire (Mandal, Arya and Pandey, 2016), Social Support Scale (Asthana and Verma (2005), and Psychological Well Being Scale (Sisodia and Chaudhary, 2005) was used. The obtained data were statistically analyzed in terms of primary analysis like recoding of variables, computing variables, categorization of demographic variables, outlier analysis, descriptive analysis, correlation analysis and stepwise regression analysis. The SPSS 20.0 was used for the present study. Stepwise multiple regression analysis using total of spirituality, mindfulness and social support as predictor variables and psychological well-being (total and its dimensions) as criterion variables indicates that social support, mindfulness significantly predicts psychological well-being of the elderly, whereas spirituality significantly predicts only one dimension of psychological well-being viz. interpersonal relations. In conclusion, the present findings summarize that social support as well as mindfulness and spirituality are important for better psychological well-being of elderly people, which provides them motivation to live life with new hope and expectations by bringing about a change at the level of thought.
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