Research Article
Aspects of Spirituality in Medical Doctors and Their Relation to Specific Views of Illness and Dealing with Their Patients' Individual Situation
Table 4
Intercorrelations of aspects of spirituality in medical doctors.
| | Religious orientation | Quest orientation | Aspiring beauty/wisdom | Conscious interactions | Compassion/generosity | Transcendence conviction |
| Aspects of spirituality | | | | | | | Religious orientation | | .473** | .486** | .169** | .291** | .743** | Quest orientation | | | .693** | .449** | .424** | .557** | Aspiring beauty/insight | | | | .365** | .402** | .515** | Conscious interactions | | | | | .531** | .291** | Compassion/generosity | | | | | | .347** |
| Life satisfaction (Sum Score) | .139 | .083 | .230** | .271** | .126 | .040 |
| Illness as a meaningless interruption (sum score) | −.304** | −.332** | −.259** | −.399** | −.381** | −.406** |
| Meaning of illness | | | | | | | Item SK1 “whether a patient my see any meaning in illness and life or not is not of importance for the process of recovery” | −.185** | −.179** | −.123 | −.273** | −.280** | −.189** | Item SK2 “to me it is completely incomprehensible that illness may have a biographical meaning in life of man” | −.237** | −.262** | −.240** | −.347** | −.361** | −.292** | Item SK3 “illness is nothing more than a meaningless interruption of life’s course” | −.258** | −.376** | −.301** | −.387** | −.392** | −.409** | Item SK4 “illness prevents patients’ individual development” | −.314** | −.395** | −.334** | −.386** | −.375** | −.461** | Item SK5 reverse “illness is a chance to deal more consciously with life” | −.223** | −.254** | −.178** | −.279** | −.240** | −.290** |
| Dealing with patients’ individual situation | | | | | | | Item SK9 “I have no time to busy myself with patients’ individual situation” | −.035 | −.087 | −.112 | −.156 | −.060 | −.027 | Item SK10 “If I had also to deal with patients’ individual situation, it would unnecessarily cost time and nerves” | −.084 | −.200** | −.184** | −.332** | −.225** | −.153 | Item SK6 “whether a patient may understand the profound causes of illness or not, is irrelevant for the process of recovery” | −.088 | −.251** | −.128 | −.213** | −.256** | −.123 | Item SK8 “often it is simply a matter of fate or chance whether a patient becomes healthy again or not.” | .154 | −.031 | .046 | −.123 | −.159 | .046 | Item ÄS18 “for diagnosis and finding an adequate treatment, patients’ own opinion about what may have caused their illness is not of importance” | −.204** | −.210** | −.134 | −.237** | −.183** | −.160 |
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