title: Deconstructing spiritual well-being: existential well-being and HRQOL in cancer survivors.
abstract: We demonstrate the utility of partitioning the spiritual well-being (SpWB) construct into spiritual and religious components using results from a study of the relationship of existential well-being to health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in a sample of 237 cancer survivors. Existential and religious well-being were measured using the FACIT-Sp-12 and HRQOL was measured using the mental and physical component scores of the SF-12. In hierarchical linear regression analyses, existential well-being fully mediated religious well-being's effect on HRQOL and explained unique variance in both the mental and physical HRQOL domains, controlling for demographic, disease, and psychosocial variables previously shown to impact HRQOL. Religious well-being was not predictive of HRQOL.
authors.affiliation: University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, USA. donald.edmondson@uconn.edu
authors.forename: Donald
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Edmondson
authors.forename: Crystal L
authors.initials: CL
authors.lastname: Park
authors.forename: Thomas O
authors.initials: TO
authors.lastname: Blank
authors.forename: Juliane R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Fenster
authors.forename: Mary Alice
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Mills
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005086:Existentialism; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000523:psychology*; D011788:Quality of Life / Q000523:psychology*; D029181:Spirituality; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D017741:Survivors / Q000523:psychology*