Advanced Search

Journal Navigation

Journal Home

Subscriptions

Archive

Contact Us

Table of Contents

CiteULike is a free service for managing and discovering scholarly references - click here to get started.

Sign In to gain access to subscriptions and/or personal tools.
Journal of Holistic Nursing
This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow All Versions of this Article:
0898010108327212v1
27/1/7    most recent
Right arrow References
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in PubMed
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to Saved Citations
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Right arrow Request Reprints
Right arrow Add to My Marked Citations
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via HighWire
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Right arrow Citing Articles via Scopus
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Kreitzer, M. J.
Right arrow Articles by Byrd, M.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow PubMed Citation
Right arrow Articles by Kreitzer, M. J.
Right arrow Articles by Byrd, M.
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Complore   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us   Add to Digg   Add to Reddit   Add to Technorati   Add to Twitter  
What's this?

The Brief Serenity Scale

A Psychometric Analysis of a Measure of Spirituality and Well-Being

Mary Jo Kreitzer, PhD, RN, FAAN

School of Nursing at the University of Minnesota, kreit003{at}umn.edu

Cynthia R. Gross, PhD

College of Pharmacy and School of Nursing at the University of Minnesota

On-anong Waleekhachonloet, PhD

Clinical Pharmacy and Research Group at Mahasarakham University, Thailand

Maryanne Reilly-Spong, PhD

College of Pharmacy at the University of Minnesota

Marcia Byrd, PhD, RN

College of St. Catherine in St. Paul, Minnesota

Purpose: This article describes a factor analysis of a 22-item version of the Serenity Scale, a tool that measures spirituality and well-being. Method: A sample of 87 participants, enrolled in a National Institutes of Health—funded clinical trial examining the impact of mindfulness-based stress reduction on symptom management post-solid organ transplantation, completed the abbreviated instrument. Findings: Exploratory factor analysis yielded three subscales: acceptance, inner haven, and trust. The Serenity Scale was positively associated with positive affect and mindful awareness and inversely related to negative affect, anxiety, depression, health distress and transplant-related stress. Conclusions: Serenity, a dimension of spirituality that is secular and distinct from religious orientation or religiosity, shows promise as a tool that could be used to measure outcomes of nursing interventions that improve health and well-being. Implications: Spirituality is recognized as being an essential component of holistic nursing practice. As nurses expand their use of spiritual interventions, it is important to document outcomes related to nursing care. The Serenity Scale appears to capture a dimension of spirituality, a state of acceptance, inner haven and trust that is distinct from other spirituality instruments.

Key Words: serenity • spirituality • spiritual assessment

This version was published on March 1, 2009

Journal of Holistic Nursing, Vol. 27, No. 1, 7-16 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/0898010108327212
Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Complore Complore   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us   Add to Digg Digg   Add to Reddit Reddit   Add to Technorati Technorati   Add to Twitter Twitter    What's this?


This article has been cited by other articles:


Home page
 J Holist NursHome page
C. L. Blue
Commentary on "The Brief Serenity Scale: A Psychometric Analysis of a Measure of Spirituality and Well-Being"
J Holist Nurs, March 1, 2009; 27(1): 17 - 18.
[PDF]