A Study of Spirituality and Quality of Life in Relation to Psychological Well-Being among Adolescents Belonging to Urban and Rural Area

Abstract

Purpose of the present investigation was to study the role of Spirituality and Quality of Life in enhancing Psychological Well-Being of Adolescents. The sample comprised of 150 (75 Urban and 75 Rural) adolescent of Siwan (Bihar).Spirituality Scale (Biswas & Biswas, 2006) was used to measure Spirituality, Quality of Life Scale (Dubey et. al., 2007) was used for measuring quality of life and Well-Being Manifestation Measure Scale (Masse et. al., 1998) was used for measuring psychological well-being of adolescents. Pearson Product-Moment Correlation and t-test were used for analyzing the data by SPSS 16 software. Result showed that there was significant positive correlation between Spirituality and psychological well-being. Result also revealed that there was significant positive correlation between quality of life and psychological well-being. When group differences was conducted on same sample, it was found that Urban adolescents scored significantly higher on quality of life in comparison to Rural Adolescents. Further, it was also found that Urban adolescents scored significantly higher on psychological well being as compared to Rural Adolescents.