Page No 373-380
Preeti Pant
Gargi College, University of Delhi,
The present day scenario sets forth some of the pertinent reasons why there is a
need for institutions of higher learning to consider giving greater priority to nurturing
the spiritual health of students so that they feel empowered to cope with life’s inherent
uncertainties and discontinuities and live more meaningful life. For this to happen, a
study of the contextual setting of the institutions, the vision that they envisage and the
milieu that they provide is needed, so as to better understand the effect various campus
environments have on students’ spiritual health .For this purpose, the present research
aimed to study the comparative level of spiritual health of 60 undergraduate students
each of Dev Sanskriti Vishwa Vidyalaya (DSVV), Hardwar, a secular university that
claims to provide a rich environment for students to explore the spiritual and holistic
dimensions of their lives and the conventional Delhi University (DU) colleges. The
Spiritual Health Scale (2011) consisting of 3 Domains, 6 Constructs and 27 Determinants
of spiritual health was used in the present study. The results indicate that there was
significant difference between the two groups with respect to all the 3 Domains of the
scale , namely Self Evolution, SelfActualization and Transcendence, with DSVV students
scoring significantly higher mean in each Domain as compared to DU students indicating
more refined spiritual health. The results are discussed in relation to the difference in
the two campus environments.Apotential consequence of this research is an enhanced
understanding of how colleges and universities can be made more effective in facilitating
students’ spiritual health..
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