Title:
The relationship between health principles and practices of Seventh-day Adventists, sanctification, personality, and subjective well-being
Author:
Eugene Kim
Thesis Advisor:
Joseph A. Stewart-Sicking
Committee Member:
Gina M. Magyar-Russell
Committee Member:
Sharon E. Cheston
Committee Member:
Jen L. Lowry
Committee Member:
L. Mickey Fenzel
Committee Member:
Amanda Thomas
Degree Granting Institution:
Loyola University Maryland--College of Arts and Sciences
Place:
Baltimore (Md.)
Publisher:
Loyola University Maryland
Date Created:
2017
Type of Resource:
text
Genre:
thesis
Language:
eng
Format:
application/pdf
Physical Form:
electronic
Digital Source:
born digital
Abstract:
The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between health practices, personality, sanctification of the body (as measured by Manifestation of God in the Body Scale and Sacred Qualities of the Body Scale), and subjective well-being (SWB). It also tried to identify if sanctification of the body was a stronger predictor of SWB than the other variables. Finally, the study wanted to determine if viewing the body as sacred offered an explanation for the relationship between exercise and SWB. Data were collected from three groups, totaling 345 participants: (a) Seventh-day Adventist respondents, (b) Health-conscious respondents who attend a gym and/or exercise regularly, and (c) Participants from Amazon's Mechanical Turk. There was evidence of a significant relationship between positive affect and both types of sanctification of the body. Conversely, there was not a strong correlation between sanctification and SWB with the broader population, possibly due to secular motivators that overshadowed the influence of sanctification of the body beliefs. Nevertheless, the findings support the possibility that religious beliefs can affect the SWB of an individual, especially when coupled with a cognitive-behavioral approach. Future research can address the need for a reliable instrument to measure Adventist health practices and a need for a longitudinal and qualitative approach to expand the current knowledge of sanctification, health practices, and SWB.
Degree:
Doctor of Philosophy
Level:
Doctoral
Discipline:
Pastoral Counseling
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Identifier:
KimE-17
