Do religion and spirituality matter for hotel workers’ well-being and guests’ happiness? An update of the Attraction-Selection-Attrition theory

2021 ◽  
Vol 95 ◽  
pp. 102951
Author(s):  
Tamer Koburtay ◽  
Jawad Syed
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Religion And Spirituality ◽  
Hotel Workers

An Exploratory Study of Spiritual Dimensions Among Nursing Students

2010 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary A Wehmer ◽  
Mary T Quinn Griffin ◽  
Ann H. White ◽  
Joyce J. Fitzpatrick
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Students ◽  
Spiritual Care ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Spiritual Practices ◽  
Religion And Spirituality ◽  
Spiritual Experiences ◽  
Daily Spiritual Experiences ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Spiritual Well Being ◽  
The Relationship

This exploratory descriptive study of spiritual experiences, well-being, and practices was conducted among 126 nursing students. Participants reported a higher level of spiritual well-being and life scheme than self-efficacy for well-being and life-scheme. Thus, students appeared to view the world and their role in it slightly more positively than their ability to affect their lives and make decisions. The students reported the most frequent spiritual experiences as being thankful for blessings; the next most frequent spiritual experiences having a desire to be close to God, feeling a selfless caring for others, and finding comfort in one’s religion and spirituality. Students used both conventional and unconventional spiritual practices. Further study is necessary to study the relationship among spiritual practices, daily spiritual experiences, and spiritual well-being among nursing students and to evaluate these before and after implementation of specific educational offerings focused on spirituality and spiritual care in nursing.

scholarly journals Impact of Islam-Based Caring Intervention on Spiritual Well-Being in Muslim Women with Breast Cancer Undergoing Chemotherapy

Religions ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. 361
Author(s):  
Maria Komariah ◽  
Urai Hatthakit ◽  
Nongnut Boonyoung
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
Muslim Women ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Religion And Spirituality ◽  
Peace Of Mind ◽  
Chronic Illness Therapy ◽  
Spiritual Well Being ◽  
And Control ◽  
The Impact

This research emphasizes the nurse’s role in incorporating Islamic teaching through the care practices provided in order to promote spiritual well-being in Muslim women with breast cancer undergoing chemotherapy. In addition, religion and spirituality have been recognized as the primary resources for coping. The aim of the study, therefore, was to explore the impact of an Islam-based caring intervention on the spiritual well-being of Muslim women with cancer. Furthermore, data were collected using a questionnaire and, also, the Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy-Spiritual well-being (FACIT-Sp) on baseline (Time 1), days 3 (Time 2), 23 (Time 3), and 44 (Time 4). The results showed the significant impact of an Islam-based caring intervention on the participants’ level of spiritual well-being. In addition, the mean scores varied between the intervention and control group over time. Based on the reflection, participants stipulated feeling peace of mind, closer to God, spirit for further life, and healthier.

scholarly journals Spiritual Well-Being and Its Role on the Sociality of Selected Catholic Religious Novices

Religions ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. 371
Author(s):  
Fides del Castillo ◽  
Clarence Darro del Castillo ◽  
Maricris Alvarez
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Religion And Spirituality ◽  
Scientific Methods ◽  
Life Orientation ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Spiritual Well Being ◽  
Religious Formation

Religion and spirituality are difficult to define and elusive to capture by standard scientific methods. Despite these challenges, the researchers aim to contribute to the growing body of knowledge on the psychology of religion by investigating the religious experience of Catholic novices and their spiritual well-being. Using the Spiritual Health and Life-Orientation Measure (SHALOM) developed by John Fisher, objective data was gathered from selected individuals going through religious formation. The aim was to determine the spiritual well-being of Catholic religious novices and its implication to their sociality. The results show that there was a significant difference in the quality of relationships of each novice with themselves, other people, the environment and God. Thus, there is dissonance between the ideals of the persons in the novitiate and their lived experience.

Religion and Smoking: A Review of Recent Literature

2012 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 279-292 ◽  
Author(s):  
Behshid Garrusi ◽  
Nouzar Nakhaee
Keyword(s):  
Tobacco Use ◽  
Data Gathering ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Religion And Spirituality ◽  
Religion And Health ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Health Strategy ◽  
Definition Of

Tobacco smoking and exposure to secondhand smoke are a major threat to human health worldwide. The effort to prevent tobacco use should be regarded as an important public health strategy. Given the significance of religion and spirituality in the daily life of more than 90% of the world's population, the relationship of religion and smoking should be seen as a critical research area. Religions are many and varied, but most value human well-being highly and so do not approve of tobacco use, even though they do not prohibit it entirely. In recent years, researchers have shown more interest in the subject of religion and health, including drug and tobacco use. Differences of focus and methodology notwithstanding, most studies have ascertained a deterrent role for religion as regards tobacco use, and several mechanisms have been proposed to explain the negative relationship between religion or spirituality and smoking. Many of the studies, however, suffer from shortcomings that need to be acknowledged and addressed, such as using nonstandard data-gathering tools, lack of a unified definition of religion or spirituality, and paucity of research in non-Christian and developing countries. Finally, the cross-sectional nature of many of the studies makes the meaningful interpretation of findings difficult.

scholarly journals Chronic Pain and Fatigue: Associations with Religion and Spirituality

2008 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 383-388 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marilyn Baetz ◽  
Rudy Bowen
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Pain ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Chronic Fatigue ◽  
Canadian Community Health Survey ◽  
Health Care Use ◽  
Spiritual Support ◽  
Religion And Spirituality ◽  
Psychological Well Being ◽  
Migraine Headaches ◽  
Fatigue Syndrome

BACKGROUND: Conditions with chronic, non-life-threatening pain and fatigue remain a challenge to treat, and are associated with high health care use. Understanding psychological and psychosocial contributing and coping factors, and working with patients to modify them, is one goal of management. An individual’s spirituality and/or religion may be one such factor that can influence the experience of chronic pain or fatigue.METHODS: The Canadian Community Health Survey (2002) obtained data from 37,000 individuals 15 years of age or older. From these data, four conditions with chronic pain and fatigue were analyzed together – fibromyalgia, back pain, migraine headaches and chronic fatigue syndrome. Additional data from the survey were used to determine how religion and spirituality affect psychological well-being, as well as the use of various coping methods.RESULTS: Religious persons were less likely to have chronic pain and fatigue, while those who were spiritual but not affiliated with regular worship attendance were more likely to have those conditions. Individuals with chronic pain and fatigue were more likely to use prayer and seek spiritual support as a coping method than the general population. Furthermore, chronic pain and fatigue sufferers who were both religious and spiritual were more likely to have better psychological well-being and use positive coping strategies.INTERPRETATION: Consideration of an individual’s spirituality and/or religion, and how it may be used in coping may be an additional component to the overall management of chronic pain and fatigue.

scholarly journals Spiritualité et bien-être chez des personnes âgées: le cas des résidents dans une institution en Suisse

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (20) ◽  
pp. 9
Author(s):  
Zhargalma Dandarova ◽  
Karine Laubscher ◽  
Pierre-Yves Brandt
Keyword(s):  
Religious Faith ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Personnes Âgées ◽  
Religion And Spirituality ◽  
French Speaking ◽  
First Results ◽  
Potential Link ◽  
Perte D’Autonomie ◽  
Religious Systems

<p><strong>R</strong><strong>ésumé</strong></p><p>Cet article présente les premiers résultats d’une étude exploratoire sur la spiritualité</p><p>et le bien-être chez les personnes âgées résidant dans un établissement médico- social de Suisse romande. De nombreuses difficultés liées à l’adaptation à un nouveau cadre de vie, à la perte d’autonomie et de liberté, à l’isolement et à la solitude ont été rapportées par les sujets interrogés. Si pour certains résidents la religion  ne  présente  pas  d’intérêt,  pour  beaucoup  d’autres  la  foi  religieuse représente une importante source de réconfort et de force pour faire face aux problèmes de santé et aux autres adversités de la vie. Les mécanismes psychologiques du lien potentiel entre d’une part bien-être et santé et d’autre part spiritualité et foi religieuse sont discutés à l’aide d’une modélisation des systèmes religieux.</p><p> </p><p><strong>A</strong><strong>bstract</strong></p><p>This article presents the first results of an exploratory study on spirituality and well-</p><p>being among the elderly residing in care institution in the French-speaking part of Switzerland.   Various   kinds   of   difficulties   and   troubles   in   adapting   to   the institutional life like the loss of autonomy and sense of freedom, social isolation and loneliness were reported by subjects. If for some residents religion and spirituality do not matter, many others claimed that religious faith is an important source of comfort and strength while coping with health problems and other adversities of life. The psychological mechanisms of a potential link between on one side well- being and health, and on the other side spirituality and religious faith are discussed through a model of religious systems.</p>

scholarly journals Hyvinvointi taustamusiikin kokemuksissa

2021 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kaarina Kilpiö ◽  
Meri Kytö
Keyword(s):  
Service Sector ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Personal Relationships ◽  
Background Music ◽  
Shopping Center ◽  
Security Guards ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Service Jobs ◽  
Hotel Workers ◽  
Spatial Element

Well-being in background music experiences: views of service sector employees on working with music  Salespeople, waiters, security guards, and hotel workers hear an average of eight hours of music during their workday. In most cases, they do not get to choose the music themselves. According to companies providing and purchasing background music services for service sector workplaces and commercial spaces, the rationale behind its use is to increase sales. However, music is also a spatial element to ”work with”. In this article, we ask what it is like to work with music in service jobs and how employees see the contribution of music to well-being at work. Our material is a ”Background music in the workplace” questionnaire (747 answers) and a form interview material of employees of the Koskikeskus shopping center in Tampere, Finland (66 answers). Respondents report, among other things, whether they feel the music in the workspace is for a particular group of people; who chooses the music; and whether discussions and negotiations concerning music use take place, with other employees or with customers. We analyze the material, emphasizing the respondents’ statements about well-being as expressions of coping, well-being, strain, and satisfaction. We discuss the results with a qualitative study of the topic that emphasizes music as a social and spatial element in the sales situation (Payne et al 2017, Kontukoski & Uimonen 2019). Our data shows that well-being at work and perceived musical agency interact. Occupational well-being plays an important role in looking specifically at work-related well-being and background music. The workspace changes the meanings of music to those of professionality, rendering the employees’ personal relationships to music secondary.

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