Spiritual practice and happiness among elder

Pages: 1127-1130
Suchi Choudhari (Department of Psychology, Pt. Sundarlal Sharma (Open) University, Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh)
Bansh Gopal Singh (Vice Chancellor, Pt. Sundarlal Sharma (Open) University, Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh)

Study of positive aging is a speedily developing area for research and practice. Spiritual practice and happiness, both are important concepts of human life. Comprehensive researches show that spiritual practices and spiritual beliefs help to reduce symptom and seriousness of physical and mental illness, unpredictability of events in later life. The objective of this study was to investigate whether there existence of any effect of spiritual practice on happiness of elders. Study was conducted on 160 (80 male & 80 female) respondents. Spiritual practice scale, i.e., Adhyatmic Abhayas Mapani (Choudhari & Singh, 2018) and Happiness scale, i.e., Prasannta Mapani (Choudhari & Singh, 2018) were used as tools for data collection. The outcome of the analysis indicatd that R2 coefficient was 0.35.1 (p < 0.01) which indicates that spiritual practice predicted 35.1% of the variance on happiness. However, the role of gender was found to be insignificant. It indicated that increasing spiritual practice enhanced level of happiness in the elderly.