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

Renzo Felipe Carranza Esteban; Josue Edison Turpo-Chaparro; Oscar Mamani-Benito; Jesús Hanco Torres; Fiorella Sarria Arenaza

doi:10.1016/j.heliyon.2021.e06939

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

Heliyon. 2021 May 5;7(5):e06939. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2021.e06939. eCollection 2021 May.

Authors

Renzo Felipe Carranza Esteban¹, Josue Edison Turpo-Chaparro², Oscar Mamani-Benito³, Jesús Hanco Torres², Fiorella Sarria Arenaza¹

Affiliations

¹ Universidad San Ignacio de Loyola, Fontana 550, La Molina, 15024, Lima, Peru.
² Escuela de Posgrado, Universidad Peruana Unión, Carretera Central Km 19.5 Ñaña, Chosica, Lima 15, Lima, Peru.
³ Universidad Nacional de San Agustín de Arequipa, Calle Santa Catalina 117, Arequipa, Peru.

Abstract

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).

Keywords: Life satisfaction; Peruvian citizens; Predictive analysis; Religiousness; Spirituality.