The role of family flexibility and cohesion in predicting spiritual health through the mediation of self-evaluation cores

Achieving spiritual health is one of the important issues that have occupied the minds of psychologists and spiritual people for years. The aim of the present study was to examine the multivariate relationship between the components of family flexibility and cohesion, self-evaluation cores (self-respect, generalized self-efficacy, self-control, neuroticism) and positive dimensions (spiritual improvement) of spiritual health. 210 women living in the city of Qom responded to the questionnaires of this research online through available sampling. To measure the research variables, family flexibility scale (Olson, Goral, Teazel, 2006), self-evaluation cores (Judge, Luck and Durham, 1997), spiritual well-being (Palotzin and Ellison, 1982) were used. The research findings were analyzed using multivariate regression analysis and structural equation model. The results showed that there is a significant correlation between the research variables. Also, family variables (flexibility and cohesion) can explain the variance of the positive dimensions of spiritual health. Another important finding of the current research was the mediating power of self-evaluation cores in explaining the relationship between flexibility and family cohesion and the index of spiritual health. Considering the findings of this research, it is suggested to pay attention to family indicators and self-evaluation cores in achieving spiritual health.