• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.15 no.5
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• pp.242-253
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• 2015

The purpose of this study was to identify the mediating effects of spiritual experience and depression between self-identity and subjective well-being. The subjects of this study were 138 pastor's wives, and mediating effects were analysed through path analysis and Sobel test. As a result of analysis, first, there were significant relationships among self-identity, spiritual experience, depression, and subjective well-being, but not between spiritual experience and depression. Second, spiritual experience and depression had significant mediating effect within the relationship of self-identity and subject well-being. Third, self-identity had not significant direct effect on subjective well-being. Forth, spiritual experience had not significant direct effect on depression. Implications of these results were explored in relation to the importance of self-identity and spiritual experience that could be taken to improve subjective well-being. In addition, suggestions for future research were discussed.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.15 no.10
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• pp.327-335
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• 2015

Purpose: This study is a descriptive survey to identify the relations of body shape perception, interpersonal problems, and spiritual well-being in late adolescents. Methods: The participants are 116 late adolescents in S and K city. This study was performed using a structured questionnaire from October 12 to November 16, 2012. The collected data were analyzed by t-test, Kruskal-Wallis test, Bonferroni correction, Pearson's correlation coefficient. Results: According to general characteristics of the participants, there were significant differences in body shape perception for gender, religion, experience of weight control, current body mass index, and wanted body mass index. There were significant differences in spiritual well-being for experience of drinking and religion. There was significant negative correlation between interpersonal problems and spiritual well-being. Conclusions: Therefore, nursing interventions will be needed to improve interpersonal problems and abnormal body shape perception and to enhance spiritual well-being of adolescents.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.8 no.5
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• pp.265-273
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• 2017

This study is convergence study to identify the relationships among attitude toward death(ATD), spiritual well-being(SW) and awareness about organ donation(AAOD). The survey was performed on 214 nursing students in one university. Data was collected using a structured questionnaires and analysed with PASW 20.0. Study findings revealed that AAOD has a significant correlation with ATD and SW. ATD(${\beta}=-.159$), SW(${\beta}=.132$), idea about brain death's organ donation(${\beta}=.314$), and major satisfaction(${\beta}=.134$) about AAOD were most significant predictive variables. These variables accounted for 20.5% of the variance in AAOD. The findings indicate the necessity of developing educational programs to enhance nursing students's ATD and SW for increasing positive AAOD and further rate of organ donation, and follow-up study.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.11 no.5
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• pp.391-398
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• 2020

The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of attitude to death, spiritual well-being on attitude to euthanasia of university students. The data were collected from 265 subjects using a structured self-report questionnaires and analyzed using SPSS WIN version 23.0. The mean score of attitude to death, spiritual well-being, and attitude to euthanasia were 2.75, 3.69, and 3.15. Attitudes to euthanasia did not correlate with attitudes toward death, and negatively correlated with spiritual well-being. Religious well-being was a influencing factors on attitude to euthanasia and explained 12.7% of attitude to euthanasia. This means that the higher the religious well-being, the lower the attitude to euthanasia of university students. Therefore, religious well-being should be considered in discussing euthanasia of university students.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.252-261
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• 2015

The aim of this study is to gain a better understanding of the relationship between the mental health and spiritual wellbeing of the wives of pastors by analyzing the influence of both negative and positive elements of mental health (depression and psychological wellbeing) and spiritual wellness. The findings of conducted survey and the analysis of its result on the 236 subjects to measure their psychological wellbeing, depression, and spiritual wellbeing are as follows: First, the verified result of the differences between depression, psychological wellness, and spiritual wellness depending on the demographic variables revealed that the satisfaction level of ministry uniquely showed a 5% level of significance. Second, depression showed a negative correlation with spiritual wellbeing, and a positive correlation with psychological wellbeing, which proves that rather than depression, psychological wellbeing possesses a greater influence on spiritual wellness. Third, a one-level increase of depression and psychological wellbeing had an influence on spiritual wellbeing by - 0.282 and 0.668 respectively. Lastly, the study categorized the subjects into two groups -- those who are satisfied with their ministry and those who are not -- to analyze the influence of the sub-factors of depression and psychological wellbeing on the sub-factors of spiritual wellness. As a result, both groups showed that depression had significant influence only on the existential wellbeing, while psychological wellbeing had an influence on both religious and existential wellbeing, and rather than depression, a negative state of mental health, a psychological wellbeing which is a positive state of mental health had a greater influence. The study also revealed that depression and psychological wellbeing had a greater influence on the group that is dissatisfied with their ministry than the group that is satisfied.

• Journal of Hospice and Palliative Care
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.29-36
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• 2004

Purpose: A quantitative descriptive study aimed to identify the relationships between spiritual well-being and perception attitudes of death in nursing students. Methods: A survey was conducted and 175 data were collected. Collected data were computed and analyzed using SPSS10.0 for Win. 1) Descriptive statistics were used to identify demographic data, and 2) both t-test and ANOVA statistics were used to figure out the relationships between spiritual well-being /or perception attitudes of death and demographic data of the participants. 3) Pearson's correlation coefficient was used to identify the relationships between the two main variables. Results: 1) The mean of spiritual well-being score of the participants was $50.9943{\pm}10.7235$. Significant relationships between religion /or doing economic activity and spiritual well-being were found. 2) The mean of perception attitudes of death was $20.4914{\pm}2.6280$. There were significant relationships between gender /or age and perception attitudes of death among participants. 3) A strong positive relationship between spiritual well-being and perception attitudes of death of participants was also found(r=.261, P=.000). Conclusion: The study results shows that spiritual well-being of nursing students as caregivers of terminal patients is important when the perception of death of terminal patients is considered. Previous studies indicate that caregivers' perception attitudes impact on those of terminal patients. Therefore, it is suggested that not only perception attitudes of death and spiritual well-being in terminal patients, but also those of caregivers are importantly required to consider in educational programs in relation to spiritual care of terminal patients.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.566-579
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• 2016

The purpose of this study was to analyze mediating effect of resilience and daily spiritual experiences in the relationship of stress situations and subjective well-being of Christian college students. The subjects of this study were 157 Christian college students in a certain University which is located in Seoul, and mediating effect were analyzed through structural equation model. As a result of the analysis, first, there was a significant negative correlation between perceived stress and subject well-being. Second, resilience and spiritual experience had a full mediating effect on the relationship of perceived stress and subjective well-being. Third, in the relationship of perceived stress and subjective well-being, indirect effect through resilience has a greater mediating effect than spiritual daily experience. Implications of these results were concluded that spiritual daily experience of Christian college students is a significant variable in terms of stress and happiness. Apart from spiritual experience, however, resilience also could be a very important variable that mediates stress and happiness for Christian college students. In addition, suggestions for future research were discussed.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.7 no.5
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• pp.59-68
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• 2016

The purpose of this study is to understand the effect of spirituality of nursing college student on spiritual wellbeing. We collected data by conducting structural survey to 148 freshmen from 2 nursing college from October to December, 2014. The collected data was analyzed through SPSS 18 program by mean, SD, t-test, ANOVA, Pearson correlation, and multiple regressions. As for the correlation between subdivisions of spirituality and spiritual wellbeing, the result showed statistically significant positive relationship in all of the subdivisions. As for the multiple regression analysis result, the variables influencing religious wellbeing such as religious status, daily devotion, and inner resource of spirituality had 65.1% of explanation power, while the variables influencing existential wellbeing such as meaning of life, inner resource had 59.3% of explanation power. We expect this study will provide with base data to develop the improvement program of spiritual wellbeing considering the quality of nursing college student.

• Korean Journal of Hospice Care
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.193-198
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• 2002

• Korean Journal of Hospice Care
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.110-113
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• 2006