The intrinsic spirituality scale: A new six-item instrument for assessing the salience of spirituality as a motivational construct

被引:136
作者
Hodge, DR
机构
[1] Department of Social Work, George Warren Brown Sch. Social Wk., Washington University, St. Louis, MO 63130-4899
关键词
spirituality; religion; measures; intrinsic; scales;
D O I
10.1300/J079v30n01_03
中图分类号
C916 [社会工作、社会管理、社会规划];
学科分类号
1204 ;
摘要
One facet of the growing interest in Spirituality and religion has been the tendency to conceptualize spirituality and religion as distinct, but Overlapping, constructs. While this recent distinction has lead to the creation of new spirituality measures, many of these instruments can be faulted on two grounds: they use terms (e.g., God) that limit their validity with non-theistic populations, and they fail to build upon pre-existing scientific work. To address these two concerns, this paper modifies the most prominent instrument in the field of the psychology of religion, Allport and Ross' ( 1967) measure of intrinsic religion, to tap Spirituality. The modified six-item Intrinsic spirituality scale assesses the degree to which spirituality functions as an individual's master motive, for both theistic and non-theistic Populations, both within and Outside of religious frameworks. (C) 2003 by The Haworth Press, Inc. All rights reserved.
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页数:21
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