Department of Special Education & Counselling, The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
Faculty of Management and Hospitality Technological and Higher Education Institute of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
PLoS One. 2021 Apr 15;16(4):e0249702. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0249702. eCollection 2021.
University students' spiritual wellbeing has been shown to be associated with quality, satisfaction, and joy of life. This study tested the relationship between spiritual wellbeing and symptoms of psychological disorders (i.e., depression, anxiety and stress) among Chinese university students in Hong Kong. Cross-sectional data were collected from N = 500 students (aged 17-24; 279 women). The participants were asked to complete the Spiritual Health and Life-Orientation Measure (SHALOM) to evaluate the status of their spiritual wellbeing in the personal and communal, environmental, and transcendental domains, and the Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale-21 (DASS-21) to assess their emotional states of depression, anxiety and stress. All domains of spiritual wellbeing were negatively associated with psychological distress. Hierarchical Multiple Regression showed that together the three domains of spirituality explained 79.9%, 71.3% and 85.5% of the variance in students' depression, anxiety and stress respectively. The personal and communal domain of spiritual wellbeing was the strongest predictor of psychological distress.
大学生的精神幸福感与生活质量、满意度和幸福感有关。本研究测试了香港大学生精神幸福感与心理障碍症状（即抑郁、焦虑和压力）之间的关系。从 N = 500 名年龄在 17-24 岁的学生（其中 279 名为女性）中收集了横断面数据。参与者被要求完成精神健康和生活取向量表（SHALOM），以评估他们在个人和团体、环境和超越领域的精神幸福感状况，以及抑郁、焦虑和压力量表-21（DASS-21），以评估他们的抑郁、焦虑和压力情绪状态。精神幸福感的所有领域都与心理困扰呈负相关。层次多重回归显示，精神的三个领域共同解释了学生抑郁、焦虑和压力的 79.9%、71.3%和 85.5%的方差。精神幸福感的个人和团体领域是心理困扰的最强预测因子。
