The relationship of religiosity and spirituality to the resilience of employees terminated from contract service.

Abstract

Previous studies showed that the religious and spiritual factors have influenced an individual’s resilience in facing lifes problems and stress. Greene & Conrad (2002) have linked religiosity and spirituality to resilience, and some studies (Post & Wade, 2009) have observed the importance of religiosity and spirituality in coping with demanding life problems and stress. Hence, this study is conducted to look at the relationship between religiosity/spirituality to employees’ resilience who lost their jobs due to termination of contract service. A total of 41 employees of the National Service Training Department (NSTD) were involved in this study. Initial hypothesis proposes that there is a significant relationship between increases in each dimension of religiosity/spirituality and enhanced resilience and this is supported by data of the research. Questionnaire used were adapted from the Brief Multidimensional Measure of Religiousity/Spirituality Model (Fetzer Institute/NIA, 1999) and the Resilience Scale Model (Wagnild & Young, 1993). Findings of the study showed that all dimension of religiosity/spirituality, as such spiritual experience, spiritual values/beliefs, religious activities, willingness to forgive, positive and negative coping attributes have a significant relationship on employees’ resilience. Based on findings of the research, several practices and training designs are recommended.