Validation of the Korean Version of Spiritual Meaning Scale

Even though spiritual meaning should be taken into account to fully understand existential meaning, all studies concerning existential meaning in Korea have been focusing solely on personal meaning. Main reason for that is there is no validated scale for measuring spiritual meaning in Korea. The purpose of this study was to validate Korean version of Spiritual Meaning Scale (SMS) which had been originally invented by Mascaro and Rosen (2006). After translating the scale, factorial structure and psychometric properties of the scale were examined. Results showed that SMS-Korean version had stable two-factor structure (‘meaning of life itself’ and ‘awareness of transcendent force’) with acceptable internal consistency, discriminant validity, concurrent validity and incremental validity. And the higher the level of awareness of transcendent force was, the more the relationship between stress and anxiety was reduced significantly. Lastly, the SMS score of the group with religion was slightly higher than non-religion group. Implications and limitation of the study and considerations regarding future study for spiritual meaning were discussed.

keywords: 실존적 의미, 영적 의미, 보편적 의미, 삶의 의미, existential meaning, spiritual meaning, cosmic meaning, meaning of life

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Validation of the Korean Version of Spiritual Meaning Scale

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