Spiritual Well-being and its Relation with Self-compassion and Subjective Happiness in Undergraduate Students of Goa

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Page: 457-460

Suman Grigary Thomas, Valencia Jade D’souza, and Shanmukh V. Kamble (Department of Studies and Research in Psychology, Karnatak University Dharwad, Karnataka)

The present research explored Spiritual Well-being (Religiosity & Existential Well-being) and its relationship to Self-compassion and Subjective Happiness in undergraduate students of Goa. The study aimed to find out if One’s Spiritual Well-being may cause changes Self-compassion and Subjective Happiness. The participants in this study consisted of 111 female and 110 male undergraduates from Goa. The data analysis was done using the mean Pearson Correlation Coefficient and Linear Regression analysis. The results showed that spiritual well-being is significantly and highly correlated to self-compassion and happiness. Also, it has been indicated that among the sub-dimensions of spiritual well-being; both the religiosity and existential well-being predicted happiness; while existential well-being was the only predicting factor for self-compassion