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Spiritual Well-Being Scale

The Spiritual Well-Being Scale (SWBS) is a 20-item self-report measure of spiritual well-being encompassing both religious faith and existential meaning—two dimensions critical to quality of life at end-of-life. Developed by Paloutzian and Ellison in 1982, the SWBS has become a cornerstone assessment tool in palliative care, chaplaincy, and oncology to identify unmet spiritual needs, guide supportive interventions, and evaluate the impact of spiritual care programs on patient outcomes.

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Spiritual Well-Being Scale (SWBS)
Taxonomic method record · process-pipeline / palliative-care
  • Paloutzian, R. F., & Ellison, C. W. (1982). Loneliness, spiritual well-being, and the quality of life. In L. A. Peplau & D. Perlman (Eds.), Loneliness: A sourcebook of current theory, research and therapy (pp. 224–237). Wiley. · ISBN 978-0471084785
  • Ellison, C. W. (2006). Spiritual well-being: Conceptualization and measurement. Journal of Psychology and Theology, 11(4), 330–340. · URL
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