Spiritual Self

An inner, personal construct, associated with self-esteem, and self-understanding.

• Life Satisfaction

• Spirituality

• Well-Being

• Spiritual Self

A transpersonal and philosophical relationship with nature, highlighting beliefs and practices that promote and enhance ecological, personal and community sustainability.

• Affinity with Nature

• Ecopsychology

• Animism

Defined Spirituality as "Personal and private beliefs that transcend the material aspects of life and give a deep sense of wholeness, connectedness, and openness to the infinite."

• Myers and his colleagues (2000)

• Beauregard and O’Leary (2007)

• Puchalski (2014)

• Sinnott (2002)

The contentment one has with the direction his or her life is going, the circumstances we find ourselves in, and the elements that make up his or her life’s condition.

• Well-Being

• Life Satisfaction

• Life Contentment
  

The ties that bind people and nature together.

• Ecopsychology

• Connection with Nature

• Affinity with Nature

A practice that venerated animals, trees, bodies of water, and land.

• Gnosticism

• Animism

• Pantheism

• Mysticism

It is a formal attachment to the set of beliefs, values, and practices of a particular religious sect.

• Ascetism

• Mysticism

• Spirituality

• Religiosity

All of these are characteristics of people that have high level of well-being and life satisfaction EXCEPT:

• Self-direction and productivity

• Control of behavior

• Confident of life

• Sustaining relationships and affection

Defined Spirituality as "The aspect of the self that is associated to an individual’s process of seeking and expressing meaning and how he or she is connected to the self, to others, to the moment and to everything else that composes his/her environment, including the sacred and significant."

• Beauregard and O’Leary (2007)

• Puchalski (2014)

• Sinnott (2002)

• Myers and his colleagues (2000)

If religiosity is______, then spirituality is______

• individual, communal

• eternal, individual

• individual, eternal

• communal, individual