Spiritual Well-Being Scale.
SWBS
Spiritual well-being across two subscales - Religious Well-Being (relationship with God / a higher power) and Existential Well-Being (life purpose and satisfaction, not religiously framed).
- Provisionally grouped under
- Length and format
- 20 (10 Religious + 10 Existential). 6-pt Likert (strongly agree - strongly disagree); about half reverse-scored (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- Translated into many languages (ES, PT, ZH, FA, KO and others)
- Licence
- copyrighted - commercial
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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: A Sourcebook of Current Theory, Research and Therapy. Wiley.
Measures you can take in wellbeing and positive psychology
These are measures in the same field, which you can take here. This entry does not describe them.
Also catalogued under
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 RWB + 10 EWB; 9 items reverse-worded).
More in Wellbeing and positive psychology
- SWLS - Satisfaction With Life Scale
5 items. public-domain / open.
- WHO-5 Well-Being Index
5 items. public-domain / open.
- AFM-2 - Affectometer 2
40 (20 sentence items and 20 adjective items); a 5-item short form exists. open with attribution.
- AHI - Authentic Happiness Inventory
24 items. open with attribution.
- AWE-S - Awe Experience Scale
30 items. open with attribution.
- BNSG-S / BPNS - Basic Need Satisfaction in General Scale
21 items. open with attribution.
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