Private Religious Practices and Life Satisfaction among Filipino Catholics: Validation of a Theistic DSES and the Mediating Role of Spiritual Experience.

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Renz Louis T MontanoDepartment of Educational Psychology, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, 96822, USA. rmontano@hawaii.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1152-4005

Homer J YabutDepartment of Psychology, De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6989-7667

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Abstract

Religiosity and spirituality are central to the lives of Filipinos, yet limited research has examined their role in well-being. Although traditionally viewed as distinct constructs, religiosity and spirituality are deeply intertwined among Filipinos, with religious practice serving as a pathway for cultivating spiritual experience. Given the established role of spiritual experience in well-being, daily spiritual experience may represent a key mechanism through which religious practice translates into greater life satisfaction, yet research directly examining this mediating pathway remains limited. A further concern is that widely used spirituality measures, including the Daily Spiritual Experience Scale (DSES; Underwood and Teresi, Annals of Behavioral Medicine 24:22-33, 2002), have been criticized for containing items that overlap with mental and social health outcomes, raising tautological questions about observed associations. The present study addressed both concerns. A theistic 5-item version of the DSES was validated among Filipino Catholics and demonstrated superior psychometric fit over the full 13-item version. Using this validated measure, the study examined whether private religious practices predict life satisfaction and whether daily spiritual experience mediates this relationship in a sample of 1,189 Filipino Catholics (M

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CatholicismPersonal SatisfactionReligion and PsychologySpiritualityFemaleHumansPhilippinesPsychometricsReproducibility of ResultsSurveys and QuestionnairesFilipino CatholicsLife satisfactionPrivate religious practicesSpiritual experiencesValidation

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PMID42035398

DOI10.1007/s10943-026-02670-x

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