INFLUENCE OF SPIRITUALITY ON THE WELL-BEING OF ADULTS PRACTICING EVANGELICAL CHRISTIANITY BELONGING TO A CHURCH IN THE CITY OF LOS MOCHIS, SINALOA

Abstract

The objective of the invitation is to detail the experience of spiritual practices and their impact on the well-being of the followers of evangelical Christianity belonging to the community of the Church in Los Mochis, Sinaloa.

The approach used for this research was of a mixed nature with a predominance of the qualitative approach, implementing the phenomenological method, with a sequential design, in the first phase the quantitative sphere of the research is attended to by determining the level of well-being of the participants and the second phase, the qualitative sphere is attended to that has the purpose of studying and describing the experience in spiritual practices. To collect information, the descriptive questionnaire for spiritual experience was created to allow participants to describe their experience and thus inquire about their experience of spirituality, to know the practices and activities that the believer performs, it is a questionnaire of 21 open questions and is oriented to the description of these experiences,  for this, the components for each variable found in the literature were taken into account. The MHC mental health continuum questionnaire was implemented to measure the well-being of believers, this instrument was developed by Dr. Keyes (2002). The results of the MHC (Measurement of Well-Being) mental health continuum questionnaire show average general well-being for the practitioners of evangelical Christianity in the JN church of Los Mochis, however, they score high well-being in psychological well-being (eudemonia within the Keyes model) and social well-being, maintaining average well-being in hedonic (experiences of effects,  positive emotions); the code with the most citations was the one referring to affections with 31 (citations), followed by Interpersonal Relationships with 25, concept with 22, personal growth with 17, connection and meaning with 15, as well as certainty/hope with 14 and self-concept with 13. As for the relationship between categories, a wide relationship can be observed between practices and activities, personal relationships, and the experience of positive emotions, another point to highlight is that the search for transcendence and knowledge about a supreme being gives them meaning and purpose in life, which in turn is related to personal growth and therefore to self-concept.