title: Spiritual well-being and personality.
abstract: The hypothesis that High and Low Spiritual Well-being groups have different personality profiles was tested with 319 psychology undergraduates (132 men and 187 women who completed the Revised NEO Personality Inventory and the Spiritual Well-being Scale for partial course credit. Univariate analyses of variance indicated that the High Spiritual Well-being group scored lower on Neuroticism and higher or Extraversion, Agreeableness. and Conscientiousness than the Low Spiritual Well-being group. Multivariate analysis of variance indicated that the two groups had significantly different personality profiles, supporting the hypothesis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, 62901-6502, USA.
authors.forename: N V
authors.initials: NV
authors.lastname: Ramanaiah
authors.forename: J K
authors.initials: JK
authors.lastname: Rielage
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Sharpe
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010555:Personality Inventory / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011594:Psychometrics; D012069:Religion and Psychology; D015203:Reproducibility of Results