Spiritual Well-Being Scale.
SWBS
- What it measures
- Spiritual well-being on 2 subscales: Religious Well-Being (RWB, relationship with God) and Existential Well-Being (EWB, life purpose/satisfaction independent of religion)
- Length and format
- 20 (10 RWB + 10 EWB; 9 items reverse-worded). 6-point agreement (no neutral midpoint) (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- Translated into 20+ languages; assessed across 5 continents in 300+ studies; child/adolescent variants
- Normative data
- No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.
- Licence
- copyrighted - author permission
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- Reference
- Paloutzian, R. F., & Ellison, C. W. (1982). Loneliness, spiritual well-being and the quality of life. In Peplau & Perlman (Eds.), Loneliness. Wiley.
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