The international journal for the psychology of religion. (Journal file).Genia, V. (2001). Evaluation of the Spiritual Well-Being spiritual well-being, n a sense of peace and contentment stemming from an individual's relationship with the spiritual aspects of life. Scale in a sample of college students Vol. 11(1), 25-33 Genia examines the psychometric psy·cho·met·rics n. (used with a sing. verb) The branch of psychology that deals with the design, administration, and interpretation of quantitative tests for the measurement of psychological variables such as intelligence, aptitude, and qualities of the Spiritual Well-Being Scale (SWBS SWbS abbr. southwest by south Noun 1. SWbS - the compass point that is one point south of southwest southwest by south ). Originally, Paloutzian and Ellison (1982) developed this measure. According to Genia, it is "one of the most widely used instruments in the psychological study of religion" (p. 25). There are two subscales, which have ten items each. The Religious Well-Being subscale (RWB RWB Reporters Without Borders RWB Red/White/Blue RWB Royal Winnipeg Ballet RWB Responsive Workbench (3D interactive VR workspace) RWB Renommierte Weingüter Burgenland ) measures the degree to which subjects report a satisfactory relationship with God. The Existential Well-Being subscale (EWB EWB Engineers Without Borders EWB Electronics Workbench (simulation software) EWB Einzelwertberichtigung (auf Forderungen; banking, German) ) reports participants' life satisfaction. The Spiritual Well-Being score is the overall rating of well-being. Although this measure has been popular, there have been some psychometric difficulties with it. Many studies have conducted factor analyses on the SWBS and have determined that the measure does not produce a two-dimensional structure. Secondly, there is an apparent ceiling effect among evangelical Protestant populations. With these two research questions in mind, this study was designed to test the validity of the measure in diverse religious and non-religious populations. There were 211 college students in this study, which were about evenly spread between Protestant, Catholic, Jewish, and unaffiliated or affiliated outside of the Judeo-Christian faith. Yet, the evaluation was not heterogeneous in terms of ethnicity (81% white). The results of this correlational study support the factorial factorial For any whole number, the product of all the counting numbers up to and including itself. It is indicated with an exclamation point: 4! (read “four factorial”) is 1 × 2 × 3 × 4 = 24. validity of the SWB SWB Stadtwerke Bonn SWB Scranton Wilkes-Barre (Pennsylvania region) SWB Short Wheel Base SWB Southwestern Bell SWB Subjective Well-Being (psychology) SWB Switchboard SWB Social Well-Being scales. Differential patterns on the RWB and EWB indicate that they are measuring distinct matters. However, these findings need to be interpreted with caution due to the overwhelming, previous findings mentioned above. Also, it is pointed out in this report that there was "good internal consistency across four religious affiliations" for the SWB (p.31). The author did report a suggestion of ceiling effects for the SWBS for religious affiliation, as the Catholic and Protestant responses were highly negatively skewed skewed curve of a usually unimodal distribution with one tail drawn out more than the other and the median will lie above or below the mean. skewed Epidemiology adjective Referring to an asymmetrical distribution of a population or of data as compared to Jewish participants. Ceiling effects are "problematic when used with persons who are affiliated with a Christian tradition" (p. 32). More studies need to be conducted on more diverse populations in order to gain more generalizability. Similarly, there is a need to examine more individuals outside of the Judeo-Christian tradition in order to strengthen the findings. |
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