Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
3rd International Home Care Congress,, İstanbul, Türkiye, 9 - 12 Kasım 2021, ss.1-105
Background Spiritual well-being has become significant in health care. It provides a sense of meaning and purpose in life that affect quality of life in adolescents. Objective To develop a recent valid and reliable scale that evaluates adolescents’ spiritual well-being.
Methods: The spiritual well-being scale for adolescent (SWS-A) was developed as a way of assessing adolescent’s well-being. It includes the effects of mental, emotional, religious and individual behaviors of adolescents on their well-being. The items of SWS-A were created based on a qualitative research study and existing literature about adolescent spirituality. These prepared items were sent to ten experts in the health field.
Results:The SWS-A is a five-point Likert-type scale to measure adolescents’ perspectives about their spirituality. The scale, composed of 34 items, was then administered to 352 adolescents. The reliability analysis with 34 items total score correlations of all items ranged from 0.35 to 0.59 (p < 0.01). In this study, SWS-A’s total Cronbach α value was 0.90. The Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin (KMO) test result was 0.89. The factor analysis was accepted as homogeneous. The Bartlett test of sphericity result was found to be significant for this value (x2 = 3696,871; p = 0.001). In this model, the values were X2/df = 1.993, RMSEA = 0.053, CFI = 0.842.
Conclusion:The results show that the Spiritual Well-Being Scale for Adolescent has the ability to measure adolescents’ spiritual well-being in a valid and reliable manner.
Keywords Adolescent , Scale , Spiritual Well-Being , Spirituality