From: Factors promoting Iranian older adults’ spirituality: a qualitative content analysis
Examples | Subcategories | Categories |
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• a sense of change in the direction of one’s needs in life towards spiritual examples, | Highlighting of personal spirituality | Insight in personal belief |
• expansion of understanding and span of spirituality regarding God, | ||
• like to reach spiritual heights, | Attempts to reach spiritual goals | |
• doing spiritual activities based on religious commands and traditions, | ||
• bring the light of faith back to the friends | ||
• developing kindness and forgiveness, | Getting socialized spirituality | Spiritual socialization |
• observing moral principles in interaction with others, | ||
• keeping others’ secrets, | ||
• spiritual behavior in the family, | Fulfilling the role of a spiritual role model | |
• benefiting the society and having an influence, | ||
• raise decent children who benefit the society | ||
• forgive and respond a bad deed with a good one, | Positive attitude towards life | Peace of mind |
• ignore other peoples’ bad deeds, | ||
• leave those unsolved problems to “God” | ||
• a sense of freedom from worldly desires, | Guarantee of afterlife | |
• tolerate the mortal nature of life, | ||
• expecting afterlife redemption and prosperity |