[Religious dimensions and optimistic perception of the future in a sample of students]

Religiosity and the less circumscribed construct of spirituality may be related to resilience and salutogenesis. Most inventories focus more on religious practice, as prayer or visiting church, than systems of belief. The relationship between "existential well-being" and "religious well-being" has been investigated in a sample of young students by using the "Religious" and the "Existential Well-Being Scale" (Ellison u. Paloutzian 1982). Optimistic perception of the own future was unrelated to any of the religious well-being items.