Leisure and Social and Spiritual Well-Being
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Leisure and Social and Spiritual Well-Being
I have read the article on Conceptual Model of Leisure and Spiritual Well-Being and learned two things.
I have learned the meaning of spiritual well-being to be a self-reported assessment of one’s feeling and thought about their life contentment, joy and psychological comfort. Therefore, spiritual well-being is a pragmatic outcome that brings meaning to one’s life, an organization or a community by telling us that the individual is perceiving life to be going well.
Another good fact I have learned from this article is on the four parameters of spiritual health, which are Spiritual well-being, psychological well-being, social well-being and physical well-being. Each of these factors is unique.
Spiritual health/Spiritual well-being
Spiritual health is a fundamental parameter that measures an individual’s perception or feeling of satisfaction that life if going well. It is the inmost life and how it correlates with the broad world. Two-way relationship makes up spiritual well-being. The first is the vertical relationship that connects an individual to God while the other is horizontal and connects one to the surrounding world like the sense of purpose, interconnection with others and ourselves, and satisfaction with life. Therefore, Spiritual health surrounds social, mental, physical and emotional aspects of a person.
If I were conducting my study, I would measure spiritual well-being using a 6 scale that ranges from 1 (fully disagree) and 6 (fully agree). The scale would have a score for spiritual well-being with regard to hope, tolerance, and feeling of sense of meaning in life, transcendent, religiosity as well as general connectedness.
I believe there is a connection between one’s leisure time and his/her overall spiritual well-being. Leisure motivation plays an important role in spiritual health because it directly and indirectly (by way of one participating in leisure activities) affects utilization of spiritual processes during leisure time.