Keywords
spirituality
religiosity
depression
anxiety
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Abstract
This research explores the relationship between the religious life of the people and psychological adjustment based on a sample of 193 evangelical elderly living in the community of Mexico City. The aim was to provide empirical evidence based on Latin American sample, in relation to the disputed results in Anglo samples regarding the role of religious life as adaptive resource. The results show a marginal role in the spiritual life with respect to psychological maladjustment when measured through the establishment of a satisfactory relationship with God. Furthermore, this research was able to obtain strong inverse associations when the spiritual life is assumed as vital existential satisfaction. A marginal contribution of divine spirituality seems to prevail, in contrast to the important role that vital and existential spirituality plays in the psychological maladjustment in community subjects.This journal is registered under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License. Thus, this work may be reproduced, distributed, and publicly shared in digital format, as long as the names of the authors and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana are acknowledged. Others are allowed to quote, adapt, transform, auto-archive, republish, and create based on this material, for any purpose (even commercial ones), provided the authorship is duly acknowledged, a link to the original work is provided, and it is specified if changes have been made. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana does not hold the rights of published works and the authors are solely responsible for the contents of their works; they keep the moral, intellectual, privacy, and publicity rights. Approving the intervention of the work (review, copy-editing, translation, layout) and the following outreach, are granted through an use license and not through an assignment of rights. This means the journal and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana cannot be held responsible for any ethical malpractice by the authors. As a consequence of the protection granted by the use license, the journal is not required to publish recantations or modify information already published, unless the errata stems from the editorial management process. Publishing contents in this journal does not generate royalties for contributors.