Aspects of Spirituality in Medical Doctors and Their Relation to Specific Views of Illness and Dealing with Their Patients' Individual Situation

Table 2

Aspects of spirituality (main scales and respective subscales) in physicians.

	Religious orientation	Quest orientation	Aspiring beauty/wisdom	Conscious interactions	Compassion/generosity	Transcendence conviction
	Action/emotion	Action (intention)	Action/intention	Action	Intention	Cognition
All physicians
Mean	49.2	74.7	75.0	83.4	81.6	66.6
SD	25.5	20.6	18.0	14.2	15.0	27.5
Gender
Female
Mean	51.07	75.86	76.72	86.25	83.25	68.34
SD	27.22	22.42	18.40	13.18	14.64	26.00
Male
Mean	48.16	74.04	74.00	81.60	80.56	65.37
SD	27.89	19.67	17.80	14.58	15.01	28.50
𝐹 value	0.6	0.4	1.3	6.2	1.9	0.7
𝑃 value	n.s.	n.s.	n.s.	0.013	n.s.	n.s.
Specialisation
CAM
Mean	43.61	72.87	72.07	89.72	82.98	60.90
SD	31.58	22.75	18.79	11.55	16.37	29.67
AM
Mean	67.91	87.10	86.41	88.29	88.10	92.56
SD	17.68	12.24	12.08	11.50	12.33	15.01
Psychotherapy
Mean	45.50	81.09	78.53	83.33	84.62	61.30
SD	28.63	15.91	16.65	16.83	17.43	25.74
None/conventional
Mean	45.94	69.65	71.37	79.38	78.23	60.97
SD	25.95	21.50	18.10	14.22	14.10	25.38
𝐹-value	8.6	9.0	8.7	8.6	5.3	18.4
𝑃-value	<0.0001	<0.0001	<0.0001	<0.0001	0.001	<0.0001

Scores > 50% indicate a positive attitude, while scores < 50 indicate a rejection or disagreement.