Spiritual Ends Desctiptions

Unseen Growth/Benefit Persons who score high on this domain seek to fulfill their spiritual mission in life. They want to experience the sacredness of living things and unity with an ultimate reality. They try to infuse the spiritual dimension in their relationships and to manifest their divinity.
Unseen Defensive/Protective Persons who score high on this domain seek to avoid fearful or painful aspects of the afterlife.
Ordinary Growth/Benefit Persons who score high on this domain seek to obtain the benifits of spirituality in this life, such as happiness, fulfillment, peace of mind, and self-esteem. Spirituality enables them to find the strength to do what's right and to be better persons.
Ordinary Defensive/Protective Persons who score high on this domain seek to avoid unpleasant feelings like fear, guilt, and confusion. They want to feel less helpless, less empty, and to avoid suffering.

Spirituality Survey

  Cal Poly SLO SLO Community Groups
Description of Participants

Number: 181 40
Age: 21.9 (17-73) 50.6 (18-82)
Employment: 65.2% students 33.3% retired
28.6% FT employed
Ethnicity: 72.9% white
12.2% Asian American
69% white
22% Asian American
Gender: 56.4% female
42.5% male
54.8% female
38.1% male
Income: 43.1% over $80,000 26.3% over $80,000
Marital Status: 93.9% never married 57.1% married
26.2% never married
Religious Affiliation:   30% Unitatian
17.5% Other
12.5% Baptist
Average Salience of Religion or Spirituality (3-12)

  6.15 8.56
Average Spiritual Ends (1-7)

Ordinary Defensive: 3.36 3.56
Ordinary Growth: 4.53 5.01
Unseen Defensive: 3.31 3.05
Unseen Growth: 3.65 4.54