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Happiness is the wealth of all cultures, the unique culture of India is ingrained in its spiritual heritage which is imbibed in thoughts, feelings and behaviour of people through socialisation. Sustainable happiness is a much-desired goal of people of all age groups and spirituality connects people with their existence which is inadvertently sustainable and blissful.
The present study focuses to find out how spirituality relates to happiness among people of different age groups. A sample of 180 people of three age groups, i.e. 20-30 years, 40-50 years and 60-70 years was selected through stratified incidental sampling method. For data collection, Hindi translations of the Spiritual Orientation Inventory (SOI) developed by Elkins et. al. (1988) having nine dimensions and the Orientations to Happiness Profile, having four pathways, developed by Peterson and Seligman (2005) were used. The obtained data was analysed through SPSS 20 to find out descriptive statistics and Pearson Correlation Coefficient.
Spiritual Orientation has been found to be positively correlated with the Meaning and Engagement dimension of Happiness across all the age groups. Along with a significant correlation of four dimensions of Spiritual Orientation with dimensions of Happiness, Spirituality related significantly with the Happiness of people in 20-30 years of age. In 40-50 years of age, five dimensions of Spirituality showed a significant relationship with Meaning and Victory dimensions of Happiness. Few dimensions of Spirituality including Mission in Life and Awareness of Tragic significantly related with dimensions of Happiness in the age group of 60-70 years. Material Values and Pleasure were found to be negatively correlated with Happiness of people in the older age groups.
Keywords:
Happiness, Spirituality, Age, dimensions, culture
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"SPIRITUALITY AND HAPPINESS ACROSS AGE GROUPS: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY", International Journal of Science & Engineering Development Research (www.ijrti.org), ISSN:2455-2631, Vol.8, Issue 1, page no.287 - 294, January-2023, Available :http://www.ijrti.org/papers/IJRTI2301045.pdf
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