Multicultural quality of life predictive effects on wellbeing: a cross-sectional study of a Muslim community in South Australia

ABSTRACT

Muslim women (n = 39) and men (n = 59) in Adelaide, South Australia were surveyed using the ONS-UK Personal Wellbeing questions (PWB) and Multicultural Quality of Life Index (MQLI). Pearson product-moment correlational analysis, multiple regression analyses, and Hayes’s PROCESS modeling showed spiritual fulfillment-MQLI as the strongest predictor of life satisfaction-PWB, and of PWB overall. Physical wellbeing-MQLI was the greatest predictor of worthiness-PWB. For Muslim women, low spiritual fulfillment-MQLI was positively correlated with high anxiety-PWB. Muslim religiosity is not often integrated into policy and practice frameworks in Australia, which has implications for social work practice with Muslim minority communities, more so with Muslim women.

KEYWORDS:

• Multicultural
• quality of life
• wellbeing
• spirituality
• Muslim
• Australia

Acknowledgments

Adelaide Mosque Islamic Society of South Australia Inc. (AMISSA)

Little Gilbert Street, Adelaide, South Australia

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

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Funding

Thiswork was supported by the Adelaide Mosque Islamic Society (AMISSA) Inc.[Subcontract evaluation research, under program funds from Multiculturalaffairs, Department of the Premier and Cabinet, Government of South Australia].