title: Measuring spirituality as a universal human experience: development of the Spiritual Attitude and Involvement List (SAIL).
abstract: Many cancer patients experience spirituality as highly supportive while coping with their disease. Most research as well as most questionnaires in this field is religious orientated. The Spiritual Attitude and Involvement List was developed to enable research on spirituality among religious and nonreligious people. It consists of seven subscales that measure connectedness with oneself, with others and nature, and with the transcendent. Among a student, a healthy population, a healthy interested, a curative cancer, and a palliative cancer sample factorial, convergent and discriminant validity were demonstrated, as well as adequate internal consistency and test-retest reliability.
authors.affiliation: Helen Dowling Institute, Care for Cancer, Utrecht, The Netherlands. e.dejager@hdi.nl
authors.forename: Eltica
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: de Jager Meezenbroek
authors.forename: Bert
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Garssen
authors.forename: Machteld
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Van den Berg
authors.forename: Gerwi
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Tuytel
authors.forename: Dirk
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Van Dierendonck
authors.forename: Adriaan
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Visser
authors.forename: Wilmar B
authors.initials: WB
authors.lastname: Schaufeli
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000523:psychology*; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D029181:Spirituality; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires / Q000592:standards; D055815:Young Adult