Development and Application of a Spiritual Well-Being Questionnaire Called SHALOM

Journal Title: Religions - Year 2010, Vol 1, Issue 1

Abstract

The Four Domains Model of Spiritual Health and Well-Being was used as the theoretical base for the development of several spiritual well-being questionnaires, with progressive fine-tuning leading to the Spiritual Health And Life-Orientation Measure (SHALOM). SHALOM comprises 20 items with five items reflecting the quality of relationships of each person with themselves, other people, the environment and/or God, in the Personal, Communal, Environmental and Transcendental domains of spiritual well-being. SHALOM has undergone rigorous statistical testing in several languages. SHALOM has been used with school and university students, teachers, nurses, medical doctors, church-attenders, in industry and business settings, with abused women, troubled youth and alcoholics. SHALOM provides a unique way of assessing spiritual well-being as it compares each person’s ideals with their lived experiences, providing a measure of spiritual harmony or dissonance in each of the four domains.

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John Fisher

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  • EP ID EP25181
  • DOI https://doi.org/10.3390/rel1010105
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John Fisher (2010). Development and Application of a Spiritual Well-Being Questionnaire Called SHALOM. Religions, 1(1), -. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-25181