Table 3.
Spiritual needs and spiritual/religious self-categorization.
| Religious needs | Existential needs | Inner peace needs | Giving/generativity needs | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All individuals | mean | 0.72 | 0.88 | 1.87 | 1.57 |
| SD | 0.75 | 0.74 | 0.75 | 0.93 | |
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| R+S+ | mean | 1.23 | 1.20 | 1.84 | 1.46 |
| SD | 0.79 | 0.93 | 0.82 | 0.93 | |
| R+S− | mean | 1.07 | 0.77 | 1.62 | 1.62 |
| SD | 0.79 | 0.65 | 0.74 | 0.95 | |
| R−S+ | mean | 0.78 | 1.22 | 2.14 | 1.85 |
| SD | 0.72 | 0.76 | 0.62 | 0.82 | |
| R−S− | mean | 0.25 | 0.63 | 1.90 | 1.43 |
| SD | 0.36 | 0.55 | 0.75 | 0.96 | |
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| F value | 17.2 | 6.0 | 2.3 | 1.3 | |
| P value | <0.0001 | 0.001 | 0.085 | n.s. | |
Data refer to 127 to 130 responding patients.