The Relationship of Spiritual Well-being and Hope with Life Satisfaction among the Aged

The present paper seeks to investigate the relationship of spiritual well-being and hope with life satisfaction among the aged. A descriptive- correlative method is used in this research, and the statistical population includes all the aged in Ardabil. The data are based on a study on 100 aged people who were chosen randomly through simple sampling method, and questionnaires about spiritual well-being, hope and life satisfaction were used for gathering the data which were analyzed by Pearson correlation coefficient, standard multiple regression and stepwise multiple regression. The results show that there is a significant positive relationship between religious well-being and hope, between religious well-being and life satisfaction, between existential well-being and hope, between existential well-being and life satisfaction and between hope and life satisfaction. Furthermore, they show that life satisfaction among the aged can be accurately predicted through the variables of spiritual well-being and hope. The portion of these variables in predicting the life satisfaction of the aged is noticeable even when gender, age and educational background are controlled.