Prediction of Spiritual Happiness based on Spiritual Health, Life Project Reflexivity and Career Development in Students

Happiness is one of the types of positive emotions that have many functions in human life in different dimensions. Spiritual happiness is one of the types of happiness that has been the focus of researchers in recent decades due to the increasing attention to the dimension of spirituality in life.

The current research was conducted with the aim of predicting spiritual happiness based on spiritual health, life project reflexivity and career development in students. The research method was descriptive and correlational. The statistical population of the research consisted of all male and female undergraduate students in the University of Isfahan at 2022 year. From this community, 360 students were selected using the cluster sampling method. Data collection tools include demographic characteristics questionnaire, spiritual happiness scale (Chirian & Afroz, 2015), spiritual health questionnaire (Delman & Frey, 2004), life project reflexivity questionnaire (Di Fabio & et al., 2019) and career development questionnaire (Patton & Creed, 2004). The data were analyzed by calculating descriptive and inferential statistics indices (Pearson correlation coefficient and step-by-step regression analysis).

The results of this research showed that there is a positive and significant correlation between spiritual happiness, spiritual health, life project reflexivity and career development. Also, the results of regression analysis in a step-by-step showed that spiritual health, life project reflexivity and career development explain a total of 40% of the variance of spiritual vitality (P<0.05).

The results of this research showed that spiritual health, life project reflexivity and career development are predictors of spiritual happiness.