Defining and Measuring Spirituality in South African Specialist Psychiatry
To define the meaning of “spirituality” in a South African phenomenological, theory-generating qualitative inquiry, theory construction methodology was used. This refers to the tradition of nursing theory development, where a central core concept identified from the integrated data—in this case, int...
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| Medienart: | Elektronisch Aufsatz |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Springer Science + Business Media B. V.
[2015]
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Journal of religion and health
Jahr: 2015, Band: 54, Heft: 5, Seiten: 1839-1855 |
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Spirituality
B Psychiatric practice B Model construction B Measuring B Definition |
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| Zusammenfassung: | To define the meaning of “spirituality” in a South African phenomenological, theory-generating qualitative inquiry, theory construction methodology was used. This refers to the tradition of nursing theory development, where a central core concept identified from the integrated data—in this case, interviews and the literature content—had to be defined. A major focus of the study was to distinguish spirituality from religion. The denotative and connotative meanings of “spirituality” were explored to establish the components for a definition. The attributes of this definition included that spirituality constitutes a “quality”, a “journey”, a “relationship” as well as a “capacity”. While these items derived from this local definition of spirituality can be proposed for inclusion in a questionnaire for measuring spirituality in a South African context, the limits of the scope of the explorative qualitative inquiry from which it was derived must be considered. |
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| ISSN: | 1573-6571 |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: Journal of religion and health
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s10943-014-9943-y |