Domains of spirituality and their importance to the health of 75 533 adolescents in 12 countries.

ABSTRACT: Spirituality is an ancient concept with many contemporary applications to the field of health promotion. While recognized in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child as a basic human right, definitional misunderstandings about what spirituality is, and is not, and the mechanisms by which it affects the health of young people, remain. In this cross-national analysis involving >75 000 adolescents from 12 countries, we examined the relative importance of each of four spiritual health domains (connections to self, others, nature and the transcendent) in the lives of young people, and how these connections relate to a standard indicator of positive mental health status. Descriptive and applied regression analyses confirmed two major findings: (i) boys and girls in all 12 countries ranked th

SUBMITTER: Michaelson V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10319752 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature