Modelling the effect of worship attendance and personal prayer on spiritual wellbeing among 9- to 11-year-old students attending Anglican church schools in Wales.
Francis, L.J., Fisher, J., Lankshear, D.W. and Eccles, E.L. (2018) Modelling the effect of worship attendance and personal prayer on spiritual wellbeing among 9- to 11-year-old students attending Anglican church schools in Wales. International Journal of Children's Spirituality, 23 (1). pp. 30-44. ISSN 1364-436X
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Abstract
This study employs a modified form of the Fisher 16-item Feeling Good, Living Life measure of spiritual wellbeing (assessing quality of relationships across four domains: self, family, nature, and God) among a sample of 1,328 students drawn from year five and year six classes within Church in Wales primary schools, alongside measures of frequency of worship attendance and frequency of personal prayer. The data demonstrate frequency of personal prayer is a much stronger predictor than frequency of worship attendance in respect of spiritual wellbeing. This finding is consistent with the view that personal prayer is a key factor in the formation of individual spirituality.
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| Additional Information: | © 2018 Taylor & Francis. This is an author produced version of a paper subsequently published in International Journal of Children's Spirituality. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
| Depositing User: | Emma Eccles |
| Date Deposited: | 16 Apr 2018 09:09 |
| Last Modified: | 23 Jul 2019 14:20 |
| URI: | https://bgro.repository.guildhe.ac.uk/id/eprint/264 |
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