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Spiritual Training as a Social Determinant of the Spiritual Health of Young People
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Mohammad Hassan Kalantar Neyestanaki  , Minoo Asadzandi * , Seyed Morteza Hosseini |
| Spiritual Health Research Center, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran , mazandi498@gmail.com |
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Background and Aim: Social determinants of health (SDH) describe the conditions under which people are born, grow up, live, work, and age. This study aimed to examine the role of spiritual upbringing as a social determinant affecting the spiritual health of young people.
Methods: This qualitative-exploratory study was conducted using a grounded theory approach and the classic systematic method of Strauss and Corbin (three-stage coding: open, axial, and selective). The aim of the study was to identify the core phenomenon, causal conditions, contextual and intervening factors, strategies, outcomes, and the relationships among them, and it did not aim to develop a formal comprehensive theory; rather, the goal was to explain the role of social determinants in shaping the spiritual health of young adults. Data obtained from interviews with 50 students and professors were analyzed in three stages: open, central, and selective coding using MAXQDA 2020 software. The validity and reliability of the data were confirmed using the Maykut & Morehouse method.
Results: Spiritual education has been identified as one of the social determinants affecting spiritual health. From the perspective of professors and students, spiritual education combined with violence and coercion, along with the wrong behavior of parents and role models in inappropriate educational environments, with content that promotes ignorance, superstition, and a misunderstanding of religion, has a destructive effect on the spiritual health of young people. The lack of awareness of parents and educators about the impact of their performance as spiritual role models, disregard for the impact of role model-based education, and learning through imitation of role models in spiritual education were the existing challenges. Considering the impact of proper spiritual education by parents and teachers as mentors on the formation of a healthy spiritual personality, the following "policy solutions" are suggested: Providing a safe educational environment, improving the method of spiritual training with spiritual scaffolding, implementing spiritual self-care for mentors, establishing spiritual communication to create trust and empathy, increasing knowledge, learning skills to develop communication with self, God, others, and nature, and providing spiritual motivation. Preserving human dignity, respecting the freedom of young people to choose between ideas, religiosity based on reasoning and knowledge, avoiding superstition and pseudo-science are the principles of spiritual education.
Conclusion: Considering the impact of social learning in the process of spiritual education and upbringing, it is necessary for parents and teachers to follow their recommendations as mentors. The use of model-oriented education, spiritual scaffolding, and avoiding coercion and violence in spiritual education is suggested to improve the spiritual health of young people. |
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| Keywords: Spiritual Health, Spiritual Training, Young People |
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Type of Study: Original Research |
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Spiritual Health
Received: 2025/10/3 | Accepted: 2025/12/9 | Published: 2025/12/21
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