Subjective Measures of Spiritual Well-Being
The growing pragmatic and scholarly interest in spiritual well-being (SWB) makes the development of instruments for its analysis increasingly important. Factor analysis of items from survey research in Sweden and the U.S.A. resulted in seven indexes. The strongest pertain to the Christian faith, sel...
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Sage Publications
1984
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Review of religious research
Year: 1984, Volume: 25, Issue: 4, Pages: 351-364 |
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| Summary: | The growing pragmatic and scholarly interest in spiritual well-being (SWB) makes the development of instruments for its analysis increasingly important. Factor analysis of items from survey research in Sweden and the U.S.A. resulted in seven indexes. The strongest pertain to the Christian faith, self-satisfaction, and personal piety, all of which are significantly correlated with subjective SWB. Three more indexes summarize involvement in political, religious, and charitable volunteer service activities. Findings within and between subcategories of respondents in the two nations were surprisingly similar. The ten indexes explore only a few components of the complex multidimensional phenomenon of SWB. The area and the indexes require additional research; yet the indexes can be used for scientific, clinical and evaluative purposes in religious research, in the social indicators, quality of life, and wholistic health movement, in psychological and pastoral counseling, and in program planning and evaluation studies even as they undergo further modification and validation. |
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| ISSN: | 2211-4866 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Review of religious research
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/3511368 |