Modelling the effect of worship attendance and personal prayer on spiritual well-being among 9- to 11-year-old students attending Anglican church schools in Wales

This study employs a modified form of the Fisher 16-item Feeling Good, Living Life measure of spiritual well-being (assessing quality of relationships across four domains: self, family, nature and God) among a sample of 1,328 students drawn from year five and year six classes within Church in Wales...

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Auteurs: Francis, Leslie J. 1947- (Auteur) ; Eccles, Emma L. (Auteur) ; Fisher, John (Auteur) ; Lankshear, David W. (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Taylor & Francis [2018]
Dans: International journal of children's spirituality
Année: 2018, Volume: 23, Numéro: 1, Pages: 30-44
RelBib Classification:AE Psychologie de la religion
CB Spiritualité chrétienne
KBF Îles britanniques
KDE Église anglicane
RF Pédagogie religieuse
Sujets non-standardisés:B psychometric analysis
B Spiritual well-being
B Church Attendance
B Prayer
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Résumé:This study employs a modified form of the Fisher 16-item Feeling Good, Living Life measure of spiritual well-being (assessing quality of relationships across four domains: self, family, nature and God) among a sample of 1,328 students drawn from year five and year six classes within Church in Wales primary schools, alongside measures of frequency of worship attendance and frequency of personal prayer. The data demonstrate frequency of personal prayer is a much stronger predictor than frequency of worship attendance in respect of spiritual well-being. This finding is consistent with the view that personal prayer is a key factor in the formation of individual spirituality.
ISSN:1469-8455
Contient:Enthalten in: International journal of children's spirituality
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1080/1364436X.2017.1419938