The Spirituality Index of Well-Being: A New Instrument for Health-Related Quality-of-Life Research

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Table 1.

Descriptive Statistics for Spirituality Index of Well-Being (SIWB) Scales and Items

Scale or Item	Mean	SD	Skewness	Kurtosis
Note: Item answer options, 1 = strongly disagree; 2 = disagree; 3 = neither agree nor disagree; 4 = agree; 5 = strongly agree.
SIWB - self-efficacy subscale (Items 1–6)	24.56	4.46	−1.05	1.24
SIWB - life scheme subscale (Items 7-12)	24.58	4.97	−1.01	0.68
SIWB - total scale	49.14	8.63	−0.99	0.93
1. There is not much I can do to help myself.	1.63	0.83	1.66	3.33
2. Often, there is no way I can complete what I have started	2.03	1.05	1.01	0.29
3. I can’t begin to understand my problems.	1.80	0.92	1.31	1.61
4. I am overwhelmed when I have personal difficulties and problems.	2.34	1.13	0.63	−0.57
5. I don’t know how to begin to solve my problems.	1.95	0.97	1.13	1.01
6. There is not much I can do to make a difference in my life.	1.68	0.89	1.47	1.85
7. I haven’t yet found my life’s purpose.	2.21	1.17	0.79	−0.27
8. I don’t know who I am, where I came from or where I am going.	1.63	0.84	1.62	3.08
9. I have a lack of purpose in my life.	1.73	0.94	1.34	1.25
10. In this world, I don’t know where I fit in.	1.85	0.97	1.16	0.89
11. I am far from understanding the meaning of life.	1.95	1.02	1.04	0.49
12. There is a great void in my life at this time.	2.02	1.14	0.94	−0.23

Table 4.

Correlation Coefficients of Spirituality Index of Well-Being and Selected Well-Being Measures N = 500

Measures	SIWB	Self-Efficacy Subscale	Life Scheme Subscale
Note: All correlations significant at <.001.
SIWB = Spirituality Index of Well-Being; ZDS = Zung Depression Scale; SWB = Spiritual Well-Being Scale; RWB = religious well-being subscale of SWB; EWB = existential well-being subscale of SWB; GWB = General Well-Being Scale.
SIWB	1	0.91	0.92
Self-efficacy		1	0.67
Life scheme			1
ZDS	− 0.42	− 0.39	− 0.39
SWB	0.62	0.49	0.63
RWB	0.35	0.27	0.38
EWB	0.75	0.61	0.75
GWB	0.64	0.61	0.57

Supplemental Appendix and Table

Appendix 1: Spirituality Index of Well-Being; Supplemental Table: Demographic and health service characteristics of study sample.

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The Article in Brief

There is growing interest in the connection between religion, spirituality, and health. A tool for measuring the effect of spirituality on a patient�s well-being has been developed. It may be especially useful in studying quality of life related to health in patients with chronic illness, older people, and those needing end-of-life care.