Self Efficacy and Spirituality – is there a correlation

ABSTRACT

Background: Spirituality has been prevalent since the evolution of mankind started. However, the meansof practicing spirituality has changed over time. It is claimed by many that any form of spirituality has apositive profound effect on the individuals in various aspects. This research is based on the role played byspirituality on self efficacy, which is people’s beliefs about their capabilities to produce results.Methods: Through method of convenient and purposive sampling, 40 participants both male and femalewere administered with the General Self Efficacy. They were classified as being spiritual or atheist by selfreport method. Whereby, atheist declared non belief in higher power, and spiritual participants reportedbelief in higher power. An exact mode of practicing spirituality was not considered. Groups of spiritualindividuals and atheists were considered equally in terms of the number of males and females. They weregiven the General Self-Efficacy Scale.Results: The result was not significant, which is there is no significant difference between spiritualindividuals and atheists in terms of self efficacy.Conclusion: Spiritual individuals and atheists do not differ in self efficacy while many factors may remainthat determine this relationship