Relationship between Spiritual Wellness and Job Satisfaction

Running head: PSYCHOLOGY
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Explanation of the hypothetical study:
Spiritual wellness can be defined as a personal matter that spans across diverse values
and purposes across the life of people. It is important to note in this context that different
individuals have different perspectives to spiritualism and the concept of spiritualism is
considered to add true meaning to human existence (Van der Walt & De Klerk, 2014).
Research studies further suggest that spiritual belief of an individual allows them to exist in
harmony with their individual self and enables them to balance their inner needs with the
extrinsic world (Miller et al., 2016; Tejeda, 2015). It should be mentioned in this regard that
the National wellness Institute suggests that spiritual wellness primarily spans across two
factors that includes reflecting upon the purpose of life and adapt a tolerant attitude towards
other and lead a life that is synchronised with the personal values and beliefs. Spiritual
wellness is important in the corporate domain as well as it has been studied to yield positive
job satisfaction. As stated by Wu et al. (2017), spiritual wellness serves as an intrinsic
motivation that helps in improving the organizational performance outcome of the
employees. Considering the gamut of information provided by the evidence base, this
research study hypothesises the possibility that there might be a relationship between the job
satisfaction level and spiritual wellness of the employees which could be evaluated on the
basis of statistical parameters.
Research Question:
The research question for the proposed quantitative study can be mentioned as;
Is there a statistical relationship between spiritual wellness and job satisfaction that affects
the performance output of the employees working within an organization?
Description of participants and recruiting method:

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The research method would comprise of distributing a survey questionnaire to the
employees which would constitute a total of 10 questions that relate to the components of
spiritual well-being (SWB) and job satisfaction. A total of 10 participants would be recruited
from a USA based Pharmaceutical company (Sun Pharma Pharmaceutical Company). The
company authorities would be contacted through e-mail and upon obtaining a response would
be contacted personally and would be explained about the purpose and significance of
conducting the quantitative research. The rationale for choosing the organization can be
explained as the high level of stressful work environment. The sampling method would
comprise of convenience sampling method. As stated by Barnham (2015), convenience
sampling method can be defined as a non-probabilistic sampling technique that recruits
participants based on the convenient accessibility of the researcher (Brannen, 2017). The
rationale for choosing the convenient sampling method can be explained as convenience of
the researcher in collecting the data considering the smaller sample size of the sample
population. After obtaining approval from the concerned authorities, the researcher would
conduct a meeting with the sales team as they are overtly stressed and are subjected to target
pressure and high rates of employee attrition. In the meeting, the research objective and
significance would be discussed. Upon explaining about the research, participants that
volunteer to be a part of the research would be included in the research study.
Independent and Dependent Variables:
According to Crano et al. (2014), statistical analysis includes the consideration of a
dependent and an independent variable. An independent variable can be defined as the
variable that controls the variation of the dependent variable. In other words, the value of the
dependent variable changes with the variation in the independent variable. The independent
variable in this research study would be considered as spiritual wellbeing and the impact on
the job satisfaction, tolerance and quality of life would be considered as the dependent

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variable. The independent variable of spiritual wellness would be measured on the parameters
of job satisfaction level.
Reliability and Validity of the study:
As stated by Barnham (2015), reliability defines the consistency of a measurement.
Psychologists generally rely upon three types of consistency that comprises of over test or
test-retest reliability, across items or internal consistency and across different researchers or
inter-rater reliability. In this research, the researcher would consider the internal consistency
which evaluated the consistency of the people’s response with respect to different items on a
multiple-item measure. The basic underlying principle is that all items based on the
considered measures would relate to the same construct such that cumulative score of the
people would correlate with one another, otherwise the claim would not make sense and
evaluate the same underlying construct. This holds true for behavioural measures,
psychological measures as well as self-report measures. Internal consistency can be assessed
by collecting and analysing data. Researchers generally adapt a split-half correction method
in order to analyse the collected data. The approach includes splitting the items into 2 data
sets in a manner that the first and second halves of the items are divided into even and odd
numbered items. A score is then calculated for each of the items and after that the two sets of
scores are examined. Validity can be defined as the extent to which the scores appropriately
measure the variables. In order to determine the validity of a research study, researchers often
rely upon test-retest reliability and internal consistency (Crano et al., 2014). This enables the
researcher to confidently explain what the scores represent. In this case, the researchers
would rely upon criterion validity in order to estimate that people’s scores on a measure are
correlated with other criteria or variables that are assumed to be correlated. In this case,
spiritual wellbeing is expected to improve the job performance of the employees and on
evaluation of the response if the scores reflect that spiritual wellness leads to performance