Spiritual Well-Being, Social Desirability and Reasons for Living: is There a Connection?

This study explores the relationship between spirituality, social desirability, reasons for living, & suicide by testing 100 college students with various rating scales. Positive correlations were found between religious well-being & reasons for living. There also appears to be a strong relationship between the adaptive cognitive beliefs which people report as reasons for not considering suicide & their existential beliefs.