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Assessing Spiritual Health via Four Domains of Spiritual Wellbeing: The SH4DI

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This study argues for the assessment of spiritual health in terms of four domains of wellbeing concerned with self, community, environment, and God. This view of spiritual health is supported by data from 311 teachers in the UK. The Spiritual Health in Four Domains Index (SH4DI) developed from these data both provides an overall index of spiritual health and distinguishes among six different spiritual health perspectives represented by personalists, communalists, environmentalists, religionists, existentialists, and globalists.

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  1. School of Nursing, University of Ballarat, Australia

    John W. Fisher (Research Project Officer)

  2. Welsh National Centre for Religious Education, University of Wales, Bangor, Normal Site, Bangor, LL57 2PX, Wales, UK

    Leslie J. Francis (Director)

  3. Welsh National Centre for Religious Education, University of Wales, Bangor, Wales, UK

    Peter Johnson (Research Associate)

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Fisher, J.W., Francis, L.J. & Johnson, P. Assessing Spiritual Health via Four Domains of Spiritual Wellbeing: The SH4DI. Pastoral Psychology 49, 133–145 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1004609227002

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