The Measurement of Body-Mind-Spirit Well-Being

Ng, Siu Man; Yau, Josephine; Chan, Cecilia L. W.; Chan, Celia H. Y.; Ho, Dcw

doi:10.1300/j010v41n01_03

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“…The 56 item BMSWBI was developed in Chinese by Ng et al (2005) to assess holistic health and comprised four scales: Physical distress 14 items, Daily functioning 10 items, Affect 19 items and Spirituality 13 items. The four scales have high reliability in their study, with alpha coefficients ranging from 0.87 to 0.92, and concurrent validity.…”

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An Exploration of the Burnout Situation on Teachers in Two Schools in Macau

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To explore the burnout situation of teachers in two schools in Macau and to investigate any differences made of demographic characteristics. The relation of burnout on social problem solving and holistic health of teachers is also studied. A self reported questionnaire with the Chinese Maslach Burnout Inventory (C-MBI), Chinese Social Problem Solving Inventory (C-SPSI) and the Body-Mind-Spirit Well-Being Inventory (BMSWBI) were used. Totally 138 teachers participated in the study. With Hong Kong data as a reference, Macau teachers scored in the average range of burnout in emotional exhaustion and depersonalization but scored in the low range of burnout in personal accomplishment. Significance differences were found in some dimensions of burnout in age, marital status, teaching experiences, education background and satisfaction with income. Both C-SPSI and BMSWBI were found to be significantly negative correlated with emotional exhaustion and depersonalization and positive correlated with personal achievement. The findings identified those with greater degree of burnout, to whom more attention should be paid. The study also contributed to the limited literature on the quality of life of teachers in Macau. Finally, the findings added on the data base for comparison internationally among the Chinese population.

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An Exploration of the Burnout Situation on Teachers in Two Schools in Macau

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“…The World Health Organization (1948) defined health as "a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity." A multidimensional health assessment of the body, mind and spirit is warranted to reveal the dynamics and relationships between the different components of holistic health (Ng, Yau, Chan, Chan, & Ho, 2005). Body health is physical health.…”

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Development and psychometric testing the Health of Body, Mind and Spirit Scale for assessing individuals who have drug abuse histories

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Chiang

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Journal of Clinical Nursing

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“…The questionnaire included basic demographic data, the Stagnation Scale, and a battery of validation scales, namely, the 12-item General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12) [6, 8], Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) [9–11], and the Physical Distress subscale of the Body–Mind–Spirit Well-Being Inventory (BMSWBI) [12]. …”

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“…The Physical Distress subscale of BMSWBI measures subject distress of multiple somatic symptoms [12]. The 14-item self-report questionnaire has been developed and validated with Chinese adults in Hong Kong.…”

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Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the Stagnation Scale—A Traditional Chinese Medicine Construct Operationalized for Mental Health Practice

Fong

Wang

et al. 2011

Int.J. Behav. Med.

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BackgroundTraditional Chinese medicine stagnation (“yu”) syndrome is characterized by a cluster of mind/body obstruction-like symptoms. Previous studies have operationalized the concept as a psychological construct through scale development, producing a three-factor 16-item inventory with good psychometric properties.PurposeThe study aimed to further validate the Stagnation Scale by confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and examine self-appraisal of stagnation as an illness.MethodA cross-sectional questionnaire survey was conducted on a random community sample of 755 adults recruited by cluster sampling in Hong Kong.ResultsCFA revealed a good fit of the three-factor model (CFI = .95; RMSEA = .077; SRMR = .043). ROC analysis suggested a cutoff score at 50 on stagnation total score for predicting self-appraisal of an illness condition, with false positive and negative rates at 25.8% and 23.3%, respectively. Overall, 6.2% participants self-appraised to suffer stagnation symptoms to a degree of an illness, and for it, 1.9% participants intended to seek treatment. Stagnation showed positive correlations with physical distress, depression, and anxiety (r = .59–.76, p < .01) and negative correlation with age (r = −.22, p < .01).ConclusionThe Stagnation Scale appeared to be robust in factorial and construct validity. With prevalence of illness by self-appraisal at 6.2% and intention for treatment at 1.9%, stagnation is a fairly common condition associated with treatment-seeking behaviors.

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The Measurement of Body-Mind-Spirit Well-Being

Cited by 87 publications

References 15 publications

An Exploration of the Burnout Situation on Teachers in Two Schools in Macau

An Exploration of the Burnout Situation on Teachers in Two Schools in Macau

Development and psychometric testing the Health of Body, Mind and Spirit Scale for assessing individuals who have drug abuse histories

Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the Stagnation Scale—A Traditional Chinese Medicine Construct Operationalized for Mental Health Practice

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