The spiritual well-being questionnaire: Testing for model applicability, measurement and structural equivalencies, and latent mean differences across gender

By Rapson Gomez, J. Fisher. 2005

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Fisher (1998) proposed a spiritual well-being model, comprising primary factors for the domains of personal, communal, environmental and transcendental well-being, that cohere to form a single higher order or global spiritual well-being dimension. In line with this model, Gomez and Fisher (2003) published the Spiritual Well-Being Questionnaire (SWBQ), with scales for measuring personal, communal, environmental and transcendental spiritual well-being. This study used multi-group confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) to examine gender equivalencies of the measurement and structural models of the SWBQ, and the latent mean in the four SWBQ factors. A total of 3101 females and 1361 males, with age ranging from 15 to 32 years, completed the SWBQ. The statistical fit results supported the invariance of the measurement model, and some aspects of the structural model. The practical fit indices results provided support for the invariance of both the measurement and structural models. The results also showed little gender differences. Together, these findings support gender equivalencies for the SWBQ.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Health, Social Psychology

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In Clinical Psychology

1. Rafi M. M. I. Chowdhury
2. Mário Fernando
3. A. Büssing
4. C. Klein
5. J. Fisher
6. C. Zwingmann

In Health

1. Rafi M. M. I. Chowdhury
2. Mário Fernando
3. J. Fisher
4. A. Büssing
5. C. Klein
6. C. Zwingmann

In Social Psychology

1. Rafi M. M. I. Chowdhury
2. Mário Fernando
3. A. Büssing
4. C. Klein
5. C. Zwingmann
6. J. Fisher

Citations in the corpus

• Measuring Religiosity/Spirituality: Theoretical Differentiations and Categorization of Instruments (2011, background): “underlying central question is: How can someone‟s religiosity/spirituality – before or after an intervention or within the process of illness and recovery – be described as a facet of his or her subjective health? Examples for scales in this area are the Spiritual Well-Being Scale (SWBS; [57,33]), t”
• Development and Application of a Spiritual Well-Being Questionnaire Called SHALOM (2010, background): “The ‘lived experience’ component of SHALOM has been extensively tested and reported as the Spiritual Well-Being Questionnaire (SWBQ) [38-40].”
• The Relationship Between Spiritual Well-Being and Ethical Orientations in Decision Making: An Empirical Study with Business Executives in Australia (2010, methodology): “The reliability and validity of this spiritual well-being scale has been demonstrated (Gomez and Fisher, 2005a; 2005b; 2003) and the scale has also been used to measure the spiritual well-being of professional service employees such as nurses (Fisher and Brumley, 2008).”