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Extraction and validation of spiritual health components from the perspective of Islamic sources: A new approach in spiritual education
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Saeid Saboei   , Nasir Javidi * |
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Introduction: Spiritual health, as the fourth dimension of human health, plays a fundamental role in physical, mental and social health. Despite the expansion of research in the field of spirituality, most of the common models rely on Western approaches and lack indigenous and Islamic explanations. This study aimed to extract, classify and validate the components of Islamic spiritual health based on the Holy Quran and authentic hadiths in order to create a questionnaire. Nahj al-Balagha, Sahifa al-Sajjadiyah, al-Kafi and some other hadith books
Methods: The study was conducted in a mixed (quantitative-qualitative) manner. In the qualitative stage, the Quranic texts and hadiths of the Ahl al-Bayt (AS) were coded using the qualitative content analysis method in sources such as Nahj al-Balagha, Sahifa al-Sajjadiyah, al-Kafi and some other hadith books, as well as related scientific texts. The analysis stages included open, axial, and selective coding based on the Granheim and Landman model. In the quantitative stage, the extracted components were evaluated by 10 experts in the fields of theology and psychology through the Content Validity Ratio (CVR) and Content Validity Index (CVI) indices.
Findings: From a total of 1,132 initial codes, 249 axial codes and 56 selective codes were extracted, and after psychometric evaluation, 27 final components were established in the form of three core categories:
1. Relationship with God (gratitude, trust, fear and hope, sincerity, performing duties, faith in the hereafter, familiarity with the Quran, following the example of the Ahl al-Bayt),
2. Relationship with oneself (acquiring beneficial knowledge, moderation, belittling the world, modesty, earning a lawful livelihood),
3. Relationship with others and the environment (patience, loyalty, benevolence, optimism, control of sensual desires, enjoining good and forbidding evil, protecting the environment).
Conclusion: The present study showed that Islamic spiritual health is based on the existential connection of man with God and the individual's transcendence in the individual and social spheres. This model, while being in line with international spiritual health models such as the SHALOM tool and domestic ones such as the Academy of Medical Sciences model, shows its fundamental distinction from non-Islamic models in relying on monotheistic teachings. |
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| Keywords: Islamic spiritual health, qualitative content analysis, Quran and Hadith, relationship with God, self and others, psychometrics of components |
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Article Type: Original Research |
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