Spirituality in Relation to Quality if Life and Psychological Well-Being among Religious and Non-Religious Persons

The aim of the present study is to examine the relationship of Spirituality with Quality of Life (QOL) and Psychological Well being among religious and non religious persons. The religious and non religious persons chosen on the bases of their maximum indulgence in religious practices and those who are not indulge in religious practices but they follow the same religion. Spirituality scale (Husain et al., 2011) quality of life scale (WHOQOL GRP, 1995) psychological well being scale (Nishizawa,1996) was administer to measure spirituality, quality of life and psychological well being of respondents. Spirituality scale has two dimensions namely sense of purpose and maintenance of discipline and QOL has four domain namely physical health, psychological, social relationships, environment. For analysis of the data correlation method and t' test was used. The result of the study indicate strong relationship of spirituality with QOL and its three domain and quality of life among religious persons as well as non religious persons except domain environment of quality of life which is negatively related. The result of t test also indicate that religious and non religious persons are differ significantly with each other on spirituality and its dimensions, QOL and its three domain also differ significantly except domain four but on psychological well being no significant difference were found.