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Table 2 Mean level of adherence to images of God, attitudes towards death and SWB

From: Images of God and attitudes towards death in relation to spiritual wellbeing: an exploratory side study of the EORTC QLQ-SWB32 validation study in palliative cancer patients

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Different scales

Mean

SD

Scoreā€‰ā‰„ā€‰3,5 (total)

Images of God (5 point scale)

Personal God

2,75

1,42

18 (50)

Non-personal God

2,70

0,75

24 (49)

Unknowable God

3,23

1,18

19 (46)

Attitudes towards death (5 point scale)

Explicitly religious

2,53

1,34

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Agnostic/Atheistic

3,35

0,96

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Reincarnation

2,17

1,08

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Community

2,43

1,24

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Continuation

2,70

1,27

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Spiritual wellbeing scales (4 point scale)

Existential wellbeing

2,96

,59

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Relation to Self

3,05

,54

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Relation to Others

3,30

,50

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Relation to Something Greater

2,40

,73

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Relation to God (1-item scale for ā€˜believersā€™ nā€‰=ā€‰29 completed this scale)

2,38

1,02

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