Spiritual Needs of Elderly Living in Residential/Nursing Homes
Table 4
Correlations between spiritual needs, quality of life/life satisfaction, and mood states.
Religious needs
Existential needs
Inner peace needs
Giving/generativity
Spiritual needs (SpNQ)
Religious needs
1
0.304**
0.398**
0.360**
Existential needs
1
0.537**
0.450**
Inner peace needs
1
0.622**
Giving/generativity
1
Religious trust (SpREUK)
0.759**
0.111
0.286**
0.236
Life satisfaction/quality of life
FLQM index
−0.079
−0.149
−0.294**
−0.056
BMLSS sum score
0.010
−0.213
−0.279**
−0.097
Daily life affections (VAS)
0.172
0.256
0.208
0.262**
Mood states (ASTS)
Positive mood
0.043
0.047
−0.085
0.219
Grief
0.231
0.251
0.406**
0.118
Despair
0.174
0.236
0.223
0.125
Tiredness
0.271**
0.397**
0.361**
0.263**
< .01 (Pearson). ASTS: Profile of Mood States; BMLSS: Brief Multidimensional Life Satisfaction Scale; FLQM: “quality of life in elders with multimorbidity” questionnaire; SpNQ: Spiritual Needs Questionnaire; SpREUK: “Spiritual and Religious Attitudes in Dealing with Illness” questionnaire; VAS: visual analogue scale.
