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Grief in Women Religious 24 as .79 (p < .001; Costa & McCrae, 1992). In the present study, a coefficient alpha of .91 was found for the NEO-E. Spirituality. Spirituality was measured using the Spiritual Well-Being Scale (SWB; Paloutzian & Ellison, 1982). The SWB scale gives a global assessment of the subjective spiritual quality of life (see Appendix E). Paloutzian and Ellison (1991) state that the term "spiritual well-being" reflects people's meaning of spirituality as "either their relationship with God or what they understand to be their spiritual being, or their sense of satisfaction with life or purpose in life" (p.2). The SWB total score presents a general measure of an individual's spiritual well-being. Additionally, the SWB contains two subscales. The Religious Well-Being score (RWB) provides an assessment of an individual's relationship with God and the individual's perceived satisfaction with God. The Existential Well-Being (EWB) score assesses an individual's satisfaction with and purpose in life (Paloutzian & Ellison, 1991). The SWB is a 20-item self-administered instrument Responses are given on a 6- point Likert scale ranging from "strongly agree" to "strongly disagree." RWB is assessed by the ten even-numbered statements that contain the word "God" and the ten remaining odd numbered items assess EWB (Paloutzian & Ellison, 1991). In an attempt to control for response bias, about half of the items are worded in a negative fashion. The statements are scored from 1 to 6. For positive items, a higher number represents greater well-being, and the negatively worded items are reverse scored. The sum of all 20 items assesses overall spiritual well-being (Paloutzian & Ellison, 1991). Bufford, Paloutzian, and Ellison (1991) found high reliability for the SWB in four test-retest studies. The reliability coefficients ranged from .88 to .98 for RWB, .73 to .98
Grief in Women Religious 25 for EWB, and .82 to .99 for SWB. In addition, the index of internal consistency coefficient alpha, also showed high reliability across seven samples. These results ranged from .82 to .92 for RWB, .78 to .86 for EWB, and .89 to .94 for SWB. Similarly, in the present study, the coefficient alphas for the SWB at time 1 and time 2 were .92 and .90 respectively. Additionally, Bufford et al. (1991) found that the SWB is a valid gauge for overall well-being. The three scales are correlated positively with purpose in life and are correlated negatively with loneliness (Ellison, 1983). A ceiling effect has been reported by the authors in some religious samples (Hill & Hood, 1999). This measure, however, is sensitive at the low end and research suggests that it may be a useful instrument to assess those experiencing spiritual distress or lack of well-being (Hill & Hood, 1999). A pilot study was performed in March 2003 to determine if the SWB scale would be an effective measure to use with women religious. Twenty members of two women religious congregations living in Maryland and Pennsylvania took part in this study. None of these women participated in this present study. It was hypothesized that scores on the modified version of the scale (see Appendix E) would show significantly more variability than would scores on the original version of the scale. The modified scale ranged from 0 to 100 instead of 0 to 5. The reason, for the modification, was concern that the range of 0 to 5 would not show enough variability in such a highly spiritual group. Findings show a mean of 1841.90 and a standard deviation of 143.61 for the modified version. For the original version, a mean of 108.35 and standard deviation of 10.69 was found. The maximum score on the original scale is 120, and the maximum score on the modified scale was 2000. Three women religious reported the maximum
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