Volume : 8, Issue : 4, APR 2022

TO FIND THE EFFICACY OF ECO SPIRITUALITY ON THE WELL-BEING OF OLDER PEOPLE.

PRAGYAN PATTANAYAK, DR. MANORANJAN TRIPATHY

Abstract

Wellbeing is the experience of health, happiness, and prosperity. It includes having good mental health, hight life satisfaction and sense of meaning or purpose and ability to manage stress. The present study investigated the effect of eco-spirituality on wellbeing of older individuals. Wellbeing scale (Prof. B. Nagarathna and Mrs. T.D. Vimala) was used to collect data from aged people (N=60), 30 from an Eco-spiritual environment and 30 not from an Eco-spiritual environment. T- test was applied to test the hypothesis. The findings revealed that spirituality alone does not define wellbeing in aged people. The result has been discussed and suggestions have been offered for future research.

Keywords

WELL-BEING, ECO SPIRITUALITY & AGED PEOPLE.

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