Table 3.

Spiritual Index of Well-Being Chinese version (SIWB-C) items with factor loading, construct reliability, and convergent validity of confirmatory factor analysis (N = 416)

Item	Factor loading	Corrected item-total correlation	Cronbach’s α if item deleted	Mean	SD	Construct reliability	AVE
Spirituality Index of Well Being Chinese version (Cronbach’s α = 0.934)
Subscale: self-efficacy (Cronbach’s α = 0.862)						0.82	0.70
1. There is not much I can do to help myself.	0.807	0.427	0.939	2.98	1.12
2. Often, there is no way I can complete what I have started	0.606	0.660	0.931	3.07	1.22
3. I can’t begin to understand my problems.	0.447	0.747	0.927	3.20	1.18
4. I am overwhelmed when I have personal difficulties and problems.	0.617	0.701	0.929	3.20	1.12
5. I don’t know how to begin to solve my problems.	0.562	0.778	0.926	3.16	1.18
6. There is not much I can do to make a difference in my life.	0.768	0.582	0.933	2.93	1.14
Subscale: life scheme (Cronbach’s α = 0.931)						0.83	0.72
7. I haven’t found my life’s purpose yet.	0.756	0.695	0.929	3.10	1.14
8. I don’t know who I am, where I came from, or where I am going.	0.848	0.744	0.928	3.16	1.28
9. I have a lack of purpose in my life.	0.836	0.810	0.925	3.15	1.23
10. In this world, I don’t know my true sense of belonging.	0.838	0.827	0.924	3.08	1.22
11. I am far from understanding the meaning of life.	0.864	0.780	0.926	3.10	1.24
12. There is a great void in my life at this time.	0.740	0.763	0.927	3.18	1.27

AVE average variance extracted, SD standard deviation