Spiritual Well-Being Scale.
SWBS
Spiritual well-being on 2 subscales: Religious Well-Being (RWB, relationship with God) and Existential Well-Being (EWB, life purpose/satisfaction independent of religion)
- Provisionally grouped under
- 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
- 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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The same instrument filed in another domain of this catalogue. Our rows for it disagree about the licence, so treat the stricter reading as binding until the rights holder says otherwise.
- SWBS - Spiritual Well-Being Scale
20 (10 Religious + 10 Existential).
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