Spirituality and religiousness as predictors of life satisfaction among Peruvian citizens during the COVID-19 pandemic

• Main Authors: Renzo Felipe Carranza Esteban, Josue Edison Turpo-Chaparro, Oscar Mamani-Benito, Jesús Hanco Torres, Fiorella Sarria Arenaza
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2021-05-01
• Series: Heliyon
• Subjects: Religiousness; Spirituality; Life satisfaction; Predictive analysis; Peruvian citizens
• Online Access: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405844021010422
• ISSN: 2405-8440

The objective of this study was to determine if religiousness and spirituality predict life satisfaction among Peruvian citizens during the COVID-19 pandemic. This is a non-experimental, predictive and cross-sectional study with a sample of 734 people of both sexes (39.5% males and 60.5% females) between 17-75 years of age (M = 32.05). To measure the variables, the Brief Multidimensional Measure of Religiousness/Spirituality (BMMRS) and the Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS) were used. A multiple regression analysis was performed to determine the variables that best predict life satisfaction, finding that the spirituality variable explains 10.7 % of the total variance of the life satisfaction variable. In summary, a positive and significant correlation between spirituality and life satisfaction is identified (r = .328, p < .01).