Russian-language adaptation of the questionnaire «Scale of spiritual Well-Being» (Spiritual Well-Being Scale)

Introduction. Spiritual well-being affects the ability to cope with life stresses, study and work productively, develop and maintain positive psychological functioning. In the English-speaking segment of scientific literature, there is a fairly large number of studies devoted to spiritual well-being, in the Russian-speaking field there are few of them, and spirituality is rather studied as a value category, rather than spiritual well-being, as one of the components of a person's mental health. One of the reasons is the lack of a reliable and valid instrument for measuring it. The aim of the study was to present the results of the adaptation of the questionnaire «Spiritual Well-Being Scale» (SWBS), R. F. Paloutzian and C. W. Ellison, 1982) on a Russian-speaking sample. Materials and methods. The questionnaire was tested on a Russian-speaking sample of 959 respondents (761 women and 198 men average age (38.6 ± 14 years). The following methods were used in the testing process: The questionnaire «Scale of spiritual well-being» (Paloutzian & Ellison, 1982), the Scale of psychological well-being K. Riff, the Portrait value questionnaire Sh. Schwartz (PVQ-R), methods of mathematical and statistical data processing. KEYWORDS Results. The RMSEA of the model was 0.091, AIC – 922, CFI – 0.88, GFI – 0.83, χ2(169)=840, p<0.001. All components of the adapted questionnaire «Scale of spiritual well-being» were statistically significantly associated with the factors of the original SWBS scale. The third factor discovered in the process of exploratory and confirmatory analyses is of an auxiliary nature, since the questions included in it are included in the first and second factors and showed a more significant factor load, according to the content of the questions included in it. The results of the verification of the convergent validity of the questionnaire «Scale of spiritual well-being», in particular, significant correlations of the subscales of religious (RWBS) and existential (EWBS) well-being with the scores on the subscales of the «Portrait Value Questionnaire». The significant positive correlations with all components and the overall score of the «Riff Psychological Well-being Scale», speak in favor of the reliability of the studied methodology. Conclusion. The results of the approbation showed a high level of reliability, internal consistency and internal validity of the questionnaire. During the testing, the two-factor structure of the questionnaire was confirmed, including subscales of religious and existential well-being. The proven tool can be used to study spirituality in a religious, confessional, and non religious sense.