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Relação entre o bem-estar espiritual e sintomas psicopatológicos na população adulta portuguesa
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Vários estudos têm encontrado associação entre a espiritualidade/religiosidade e a doença mental, como depressão e ansiedade. Estes estudos não só utilizam, fundamentalmente, amostras de indivíduos com doença mental, como recorrem a conceptualizações muito distintas para o conceito de espiritualidade dificultando a comparação entre os resultados.
O conceito de Bem-Estar Espiritual integra a espiritualidade na saúde, expressando-se através da qualidade das relações que o individuo estabelece consigo próprio (domínio pessoal), com os outros (comunitário), com a natureza (ambiental) e com algo superior ao domínio humano (transcendental).
Este estudo, de natureza transversal, relacionou através de uma regressão linear o Bem-Estar Espiritual com os sintomas psicopatológicos e com medidas de bem-estar global, uma amostra de 320 adultos da população geral portuguesa (62,2% do sexo feminino; com idades compreendidas entre os 16 e os 73 anos (M=42,36, DP=14,32).
Os instrumentos utilizados foram o Spiritual Health And Life-Orientation Measure (SHALOM; Fisher, 2010; Gouveia et al., 2009) que mede o bem-estar espiritual e o Inventario de Sintomas Psicopatológicos (Derogat, 1975; Canavarro, 1999).
Globalmente, os resultados indicam que os domínios Pessoal e Transcendental são os preditores significativos da maioria dos sintomas psicopatológicos, contribuindo de forma distinta para explicar a variação dos sintomas. Quanto maiores os níveis de BEE no domínio Pessoal menores os sintomas psicopatológicos. Já o domínio Transcendental assume uma relação direta.
A reduzida dimensão da amostra, os enviesamentos da recolha online e a natureza transversal do estudo, não permitem a generalização destes resultados e não legitimam inferências de causalidade entre estas variáveis.
ABSTRACT------Several studies have found a interrelations between spirituality/religiosity and mental illness such as depression and anxiety. However this studies do not only mainly use samples of mentally ill individuals, as well as a widely different conceptualization of the spirituality concept which difficult the results comparison. The concept of Spiritual Well-Being integrates spirituality in health, expressing itself through the relationships quality that the individual establishes with itself (personal domain), with others (Communal), with nature (environmental) and somewhat higher than human domain (transcendental). This transversal nature study related the Spiritual Well-Being with psychopathological symptoms and global well-being measures by a linear regression. The sample was composed of 320 adults from the Portuguese general population (62.2% female; aged between 16 and 73 years (M = 42.36, SD = 14.32)). The applied questionnaires are: the Spiritual Health And Life-Orientation Measure (SHALOM; Fisher, 2010;. Gouveia et al, 2009) which measures the spiritual well-being and the Brief Symptom Inventory (Derogat, 1975; Canavarro, 1999). Overall, the results indicate that the Personal and Transcendental domain are significant predictors of most psychopathological symptoms, contributing in different ways to explain the variation of symptoms. The higher the Spiritual Well-Being levels in the Personal domain, the lower the psychopathological symptoms. The Transcendental domain assumes a direct relationship. The small sample size, the biases of the online data collection and the transversal nature of the study do not allow the generalization of these results and do not legitimate causality inferences between these variables.
ABSTRACT------Several studies have found a interrelations between spirituality/religiosity and mental illness such as depression and anxiety. However this studies do not only mainly use samples of mentally ill individuals, as well as a widely different conceptualization of the spirituality concept which difficult the results comparison. The concept of Spiritual Well-Being integrates spirituality in health, expressing itself through the relationships quality that the individual establishes with itself (personal domain), with others (Communal), with nature (environmental) and somewhat higher than human domain (transcendental). This transversal nature study related the Spiritual Well-Being with psychopathological symptoms and global well-being measures by a linear regression. The sample was composed of 320 adults from the Portuguese general population (62.2% female; aged between 16 and 73 years (M = 42.36, SD = 14.32)). The applied questionnaires are: the Spiritual Health And Life-Orientation Measure (SHALOM; Fisher, 2010;. Gouveia et al, 2009) which measures the spiritual well-being and the Brief Symptom Inventory (Derogat, 1975; Canavarro, 1999). Overall, the results indicate that the Personal and Transcendental domain are significant predictors of most psychopathological symptoms, contributing in different ways to explain the variation of symptoms. The higher the Spiritual Well-Being levels in the Personal domain, the lower the psychopathological symptoms. The Transcendental domain assumes a direct relationship. The small sample size, the biases of the online data collection and the transversal nature of the study do not allow the generalization of these results and do not legitimate causality inferences between these variables.
ABSTRACT------Several studies have found a interrelations between spirituality/religiosity and mental illness such as depression and anxiety. However this studies do not only mainly use samples of mentally ill individuals, as well as a widely different conceptualization of the spirituality concept which difficult the results comparison. The concept of Spiritual Well-Being integrates spirituality in health, expressing itself through the relationships quality that the individual establishes with itself (personal domain), with others (Communal), with nature (environmental) and somewhat higher than human domain (transcendental). This transversal nature study related the Spiritual Well-Being with psychopathological symptoms and global well-being measures by a linear regression. The sample was composed of 320 adults from the Portuguese general population (62.2% female; aged between 16 and 73 years (M = 42.36, SD = 14.32)). The applied questionnaires are: the Spiritual Health And Life-Orientation Measure (SHALOM; Fisher, 2010;. Gouveia et al, 2009) which measures the spiritual well-being and the Brief Symptom Inventory (Derogat, 1975; Canavarro, 1999). Overall, the results indicate that the Personal and Transcendental domain are significant predictors of most psychopathological symptoms, contributing in different ways to explain the variation of symptoms. The higher the Spiritual Well-Being levels in the Personal domain, the lower the psychopathological symptoms. The Transcendental domain assumes a direct relationship. The small sample size, the biases of the online data collection and the transversal nature of the study do not allow the generalization of these results and do not legitimate causality inferences between these variables.
ABSTRACT------Several studies have found a interrelations between spirituality/religiosity and mental illness such as depression and anxiety. However this studies do not only mainly use samples of mentally ill individuals, as well as a widely different conceptualization of the spirituality concept which difficult the results comparison. The concept of Spiritual Well-Being integrates spirituality in health, expressing itself through the relationships quality that the individual establishes with itself (personal domain), with others (Communal), with nature (environmental) and somewhat higher than human domain (transcendental). This transversal nature study related the Spiritual Well-Being with psychopathological symptoms and global well-being measures by a linear regression. The sample was composed of 320 adults from the Portuguese general population (62.2% female; aged between 16 and 73 years (M = 42.36, SD = 14.32)). The applied questionnaires are: the Spiritual Health And Life-Orientation Measure (SHALOM; Fisher, 2010;. Gouveia et al, 2009) which measures the spiritual well-being and the Brief Symptom Inventory (Derogat, 1975; Canavarro, 1999). Overall, the results indicate that the Personal and Transcendental domain are significant predictors of most psychopathological symptoms, contributing in different ways to explain the variation of symptoms. The higher the Spiritual Well-Being levels in the Personal domain, the lower the psychopathological symptoms. The Transcendental domain assumes a direct relationship. The small sample size, the biases of the online data collection and the transversal nature of the study do not allow the generalization of these results and do not legitimate causality inferences between these variables.
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Dissertação de mestrado apresentada ao ISPA - Instituto Superiror
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bem-estar espiritual espiritualidade sintomas psicopatológicos Spiritual well being spirituality spirituality psychopathological symptoms psychopathological symptoms