Number | Questions | Affiliation with God | Satisfaction with life | Alienation from God-sense of meaningless life |
SWS1 | I don’t find much satisfaction in private prayer with God. | −0.566 | 0.142 | 0.472 |
SWS3 | I believe that God loves me and cares about me. | 0.763 | 0.168 | −0.125 |
SWS5 | I believe that God is impersonal and not interested in my daily situations. | −0.531 | 0.097 | 0.446 |
SWS7 | I have a personally meaningful relationship with God. | 0.738 | 0.216 | −0.079 |
SWS11 | I believe that God is concerned about my problems. | 0.733 | 0.147 | −0.086 |
SWS15 | My relationship with God helps me not to feel lonely. | 0.775 | 0.110 | 0.007 |
SWS17 | I feel most fulfilled when I’m in close communion with God. | 0.804 | 0.091 | 0.087 |
SWS19 | My relation with God contributes to my sense of well-being. | 0.825 | 0.121 | 0.050 |
SWS4 | I feel that life is a positive experience. | 0.119 | 0.630 | −0.78 |
SWS8 | I feel very fulfilled and satisfied with life. | 0.043 | 0.775 | −0.081 |
SWS10 | I feel a sense of well-being about the direction my life is headed in. | 0.154 | 0.757 | −0.055 |
SWS14 | I feel good about my future. | 0.095 | 0.607 | −0.192 |
SWS20 | I believe there is some real purpose for my life. | 0.369 | 0.559 | −0.041 |
SWS2 | I don’t know who I am, where I came from, or where I’m going. | −0.109 | −0.081 | 0.632 |
SWS6 | I feel unsettled about my future. | −0.027 | −0.143 | 0.450 |
SWS9 | I don’t get much personal strength and support from my God. | −0.381 | 0.184 | 0.492 |
SWS12 | I don’t enjoy much about life | 0.222 | −0.469 | 0.573 |
SWS13 | I don’t have a personally satisfying relationship with God. | −0.343 | 0.029 | 0.618 |
SWS16 | I feel that life is full of conflict and unhappiness. | 0.242 | −0.268 | 0.472 |
SWS18 | Life doesn’t have much meaning. | 0.140 | −0.337 | 0.586 |
Eigen values |
| 4.784 | 2.883 | 2.642 |
% of variance |
| 23.911 | 14.4 | 13.181 |
Cronbach’s a |
| 0.882 | 0.738 | 0.669 |