Bhagwandas Kiran, Kumar Gyanprakash, Satish Latha, Behera Narayan, Mohanty Soubhagyalaxmi, Mahadevan Jayaraman
Department of Yoga and Spirituality, SVYASA University, Prashanti Kutiram, Vivekanand Road, Kallubalu Post Jigani, Anekal Taluk, Bangalore, 560105, India.
Department of Yoga and Physical Sciences, SVYASA University, Bangalore, India.
J Relig Health. 2025 Apr;64(2):1257-1275. doi: 10.1007/s10943-024-02220-3. Epub 2024 Dec 26.
Spiritual lifestyles positively impact physical and mental health, which can be addressed by effective spiritual tools. This review systematically evaluates general spirituality instruments retrieved from various databases. Among the top four validated tools with strong psychometric properties, each exhibited a limitation-such as contamination, absence of subscales, or lack of confirmatory factor analysis-which impacts their broader applicability. Furthermore, these tools don't adequately address the widespread mental health issues in society. Therefore, spirituality scales incorporating domains such as meditation, surrender, and detached action with connection to transcendence awareness are proposed. Linking to neural imaging of brain functions, these tools can scientifically address mental health challenges across diverse cultural contexts.
精神生活方式对身心健康有积极影响，有效的精神工具可以解决这一问题。本综述系统评估了从各种数据库中检索到的一般精神性工具。在四个具有强大心理测量特性的经过验证的工具中，每个工具都存在局限性，例如存在混杂因素、没有分量表或缺乏验证性因素分析，这影响了它们更广泛的适用性。此外，这些工具没有充分解决社会中普遍存在的心理健康问题。因此，建议采用包含冥想、臣服和与超越意识相关的超脱行动等领域的精神性量表。与大脑功能的神经成像相联系，这些工具可以科学地应对不同文化背景下的心理健康挑战。
