Gender, education and spiritual health: An exploratory analysis

Pages: 91-96
Deepak Shukla (Director Operations, Pushpawati Singhania Research Institute, (Hospital), New Delhi)
S.D. Sharma (Department of Psychiatry, National Academy of Medical Sciences (NAMS) & Institute of Human Behavior and Allied Sciences)
Shailendra Kumar Sharma and Pragyendu (Department of Applied Psychology, Sri Aurobindo College (Evening), University of Delhi, Delhi)

People around the world have increasingly realized the need of Spiritual health to attain best possible wellness status, irrespective of being theist or atheist and irrespective of their cast, creed, nationality, sex, age etc. Health professionals as well as common masses have increasingly felt the need of spiritual health, to attain overall wellness of people. The objective of the present research study was to measure and compare Spiritual Health scores of males and females as well as different educational group. To compare the Spiritual Health levels of all the participants of the current study Spiritual Health Scale (SHS- 2011) developed at National Institute of Health and Family Welfare contains 114 items, 6 constructs and 3 domains was used. Significant finding of the current study was the Spiritual Health scores of all Females respondents (n=128) when compared and contrasted with all Male respondents (n=332) were significant higher on the three domains namely, Self-Evolution, Self-Actualization and Transcendence and 5 constructs, namely, Wider Perspective, Nurturance Art, Engineering from Within, Deeper Meaning and Universal Love. Curiously the scores between males and females did not show a significant difference when compared on the construct of ‘Considering oneself as a part of the Supreme.’