Domains of spiritual well-being and development and validation of the Spiritual Well-Being Questionnaire

By Rapson Gomez, J. Fisher. 2003

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Abstract Fisher (1998) proposed a spiritual well-being model, comprising the domains of personal, communal, environmental and transcendental well-being, and a single global spiritual well-being dimension. This paper reports on four studies aimed at testing Fisher’s theoretical model, and establishing the validity and reliability of a new self-rating questionnaire (Spiritual Well-Being Questionnaire; SWBQ), developed to reflect this model. All four studies supported Fisher’s model. The SWBQ showed good reliability (Cronbach’s alpha, composite reliability and variance extracted), and validity (construct, concurrent, discriminant, predictive and factorial independence from personality). The SWBQ has the advantage over other existing spiritual well-being measures in that it is based on a broader and more empirically based conceptualization of spiritual well-being, and has well established psychometric properties.

Subfields: Health, Social Psychology

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In Health

1. J. Fisher
2. Rafi M. M. I. Chowdhury
3. Mário Fernando
4. M. Holder
5. B. Coleman
6. Judith M. Wallace
7. Rapson Gomez
8. A. Büssing

In Social Psychology

1. J. Fisher
2. Rafi M. M. I. Chowdhury
3. Mário Fernando
4. M. Holder
5. Judith M. Wallace
6. B. Coleman
7. Rapson Gomez
8. A. Büssing

Citations in the corpus

• 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).”
• Development and Application of a Spiritual Well-Being Questionnaire Called SHALOM (2010, methodology): “The ‘lived experience’ component of SHALOM has been extensively tested and reported as the Spiritual Well-Being Questionnaire (SWBQ) [38-40].”
• Measuring Religiosity/Spirituality: Theoretical Differentiations and Categorization of Instruments (2011, background): “Similar attempts to measure different aspects of spirituality can be found in the FACIT-Sp which differentiates Faith, Meaning and Peace [60], in the SWBQ which differentiates Personal, Transcendental, Environmental, and Communal Well-being [58], in the SpNQ which differentiates Religious Needs, Inn”
• The spiritual well-being questionnaire: Testing for model applicability, measurement and structural equivalencies, and latent mean differences across gender (2005, methodology): “In our previous study (Gomez & Fisher, 2003), exploratory factor analyses showed support for a similar factor structure and loadings for males and females.”
• The Role of Spiritual Well-Being and Materialism in Determining Consumers’ Ethical Beliefs: An Empirical Study with Australian Consumers (2012, methodology): “Appendix 1: Measurement scale for spiritual well-being (Fisher 1999; Gomez and Fisher 2003) Lived Communal Well-Being 1.”
• Spirituality, Religiousness, and Happiness in Children Aged 8–12 Years (2010, methodology): “Research has indicated the SWBQ has high internal consistency, good convergent and discriminant validity, and support for construct validity ( Gomez and Fisher 2003 ).”