Table 3. Final FACIT-Sp-Ex Standardized Factor Loadings (β).

FACIT-Sp-Ex item or factora,b,c	Peace	Meaning	Faith	Relational	2nd-Order
1. I feel peaceful	.62
4. I have trouble feeling peace of mind (reversed)	.40
6. I am able to reach down deep into myself for comfort	.77
7. I feel a sense of harmony within myself	.79
2. I have a reason for living		.67
3. My life has been productive		.68
5. I feel a sense of purpose in my life		.76
8. My life lacks meaning and purpose (reversed)		.37
9. I find comfort in my faith or spiritual beliefs			.85
10. I find strength in my faith or spiritual beliefs			.89
11. Difficult times have strengthened my faith or spiritual beliefs			.81
13. I feel connected to a higher power (e.g. God)			.73
14. I feel connected to other people				.56
15. I feel loved				.66
16. I feel love for others				.61
17. I am able to forgive others for any harm they have ever caused me				.50
18. I feel forgiven for any harm I may have ever caused				.52
19. Throughout the course of my day, I feel a sense of thankfulness for my life				.72
20. Throughout the course of my day, I feel a sense of thankfulness for what others bring to my life				.72
21. I feel hopeful				.76
22. I feel a sense of appreciation for the beauty of nature				.63
23. I feel compassion for others in the difficulties they are facing				.54
Peace					.86
Meaning					.90
Faith					.61
Relational					.92

Note. Item 12 was excluded from the final model because it cross-loaded on all four factors.

^aThe residual variances between the following conceptually similar pairs of items were correlated to improve model fit: Item 4 with 8, 9 with 10, 17 with 18, and 19 with 20.

^bItem response options were on a 5-point Likert scale from 0 = not at all to 4 = very much.

^cPossible scores for each subscale/total score were as follows: Meaning (0-16), Peace (0-16), Faith (0-16), Relational (0-40), Total Score (0-88).