Maternal spiritual health as a predictor of psychological well-being and resilience of her young adult offspring

ABSTRACT

The unique bond between a mother and her child has drawn the attention of many researchers through the years. Yet, there is a dearth of studies that inquire maternal spiritual health and its potential manifestation through the mother–child bond. Since associations between spiritual health, resilience and psychological well-being have been established through literature, it would be interesting to study how spiritual health of a mother might be a potential source of influence in the life of her child. The current study inquires whether maternal spiritual health can predict psychological well-being and resilience in her young adult. Sample data for the study were collected from 205 families (205 mothers along with their respective young adults, N = 410). Results indicate maternal spiritual health is a significant predictor of psychological well-being (p < .01) and resilience (p < .01) of their young adults.

KEYWORDS:

• Spiritual parenting
• adolescence
• resilience
• psychological well-being

Acknowledgement

We would like to extend our gratitude to all the educational institutions for giving us the opportunity to interact with the students for data collection; along with individual participants who consented to record their opinions. All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

ORCID

Mnayitre Ghoshal http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4756-209X