Relationship Between Spiritual Well-Being and Quality of Life Among Students in Southeast-Asia Countries

Abstract

Suspending classes for university students as well as suspending worship services either at university or at public places to combat the Covid-19 disease may affect the spiritual well-being and quality of life of students in Southeast-Asia countries. This research aimed at evaluating quality of life and spiritual well-being among students of the Asia-Pacific International Universities in Muak Lek, Thailand and in Jakarta, Indonesia. The method is a non-experimental quantitative correlational research. The participants consist of 52 students from Thailand and 54 students from Indonesia. For this purpose, questionnaires were prepared and surveys of the two universities were conducted to gather quantitative data. The Spiritual Well-Being Questionnaire (SWQ) constructed by Gomez & Fisher [1] which consists of 20 questions based on Fisher [2] theory of four spiritual dimensions of well-being, namely personal, communal/universal, environmental, and transcendental domains were being used to measure the spiritual well-being of the participants. While the WHOQOL-BREF instrument adapted by Purba et. al. [3] which consists of 26 questions that have four dimensions, namely the physical, psychological, social relations and social environment were being used to measure the quality of life of the participants.