Description

The WHOQOL Spirituality, Religiousness, and Personal Beliefs (WHOQOL-SRPB) is a comprehensive psychometric instrument developed by the World Health Organization (WHO) to assess the contribution of spirituality, religiousness, and personal beliefs to an individual’s overall quality of life. As a specialized module of the internationally recognized WHOQOL assessment system, the WSpirituality, Religiousness and Personal Beliefs [WSRPB-136]

Description

The Spirituality, Religiousness and Personal Beliefs (WSRPB-136) instrument is designed to assess spirituality, religiousness, and personal beliefs as dimensions associated with quality of life. It examines how individuals experience and interpret spiritual, religious, existential, and personal aspects of their lives.

Purpose

The main purpose of the instrument is to explore how spiritual and religious beliefs, meaning and purpose in life, inner peace, hope, faith, and personal values are related to an individual’s perceived quality of life and well-being.

Structure and Scoring

The instrument assesses several dimensions, including spiritual connection, meaning and purpose in life, awe and wonder, wholeness and integration, spiritual strength, inner peace, hope and optimism, and faith. Responses are typically organized into domain or facet scores reflecting different aspects of spiritual and personal experience.

Use

The WSRPB-136 may be used in quality-of-life research, health research, psychology, social sciences, and cross-cultural studies, particularly when examining relationships between health, well-being, spirituality, religiousness, and personal beliefs.

References

WHOQOL SRPB Group. (2006). A cross-cultural study of spirituality, religion, and personal beliefs as components of quality of life. Social Science & Medicine, 62(6), 1486–1497.

World Health Organization. (2012). WHOQOL-SRPB field-test instrument: WHOQOL spirituality, religiousness and personal beliefs. World Health Organization.

Skevington, S. M., Gunson, K. S., & O’Connell, K. A. (2013). Introducing the WHOQOL-SRPB BREF: Developing a short-form instrument for assessing spiritual, religious and personal beliefs within quality of life. Quality of Life Research, 22(5), 1073–1083.