Sixtyeight individuals ages 55 or older were administered several inventories inquiring about depression and religiosity. The intrinsic spirituality scale iss was used to measure the spirituality. She also asked about their intrinsic religiosity using the intrinsic spirituality scale hodge, 2003 and found that her sample had a slightly higher degree of intrinsic religiosity as compared with the instruments average score. Extrinsic intrinsic dimension approaching religiosity from the lived perspective, allport and ross 1967 originally designed the religious orientation scale ros, which was composed of an 11item extrinsic scale to measure the extent to which individuals use their religion for their own ends and a nineitem intrinsic scale to. Emotions increase spirituality through basic world assumptions. In addition, intrinsic religiousness and spiritual awareness served as significant predictors of career decision making.
As with the facitsp, each of the subscales contains indicators of mental health or wellbeing. The spiritual experience index was developed to measure spiritual maturity in persons of. Instruments measuring spirituality in clinical research. However, compared with the intrinsic and quest scales, the. The atlg includes ten items regarding attitudes toward lesbians atl and ten items. These findings are consistent with many prior studies that have found religiousness and spirituality to be positively associated with better mental health and positive psychosocial functioning in adolescents and young adults. The role of religious involvement in mental health has been increasingly investigated in psychiatric research.
A new sixitem instrument for assessing the salience of spirituality as a motivational construct david r. Each question was scored on a six point likert scale ranging. The items of the spirituality questionnaire were coded from zero to four. This questionnaire is a revised version of the spiritual experience index. Dec 20, 2001 how important is intrinsic spirituality in depression care. The scale evaluates religiosity as opposed to spirituality, and does not separate organizational, nonorganizational and intrinsic religiosity. The psychological and physical benefits of spiritual religious practices by ellen idler through a discussion of current research and related observations, idler highlights many of the positive benefits that religious and spiritual practices can have on ones health and wellbeing. The participants are asked to complete a phrase by selecting an option from a list of 11 responses ranging from 0 to 10. The instrument assesses the three major dimensions of religiosity that were identified during a consensus meeting sponsored by the national institute on aging.
Though many other scales also intend to measure the aspect of. Validation of the intrinsic spirituality scale iss with. Measuring spirituality and religiosity in clinical research. More importantly, they shift our focus from peoples behavior to the worldviews that motivate those actions.
Allport himself was hesitant to say that intrinsicextrinsic religiosity actually caused prejudice. Qualitative results showed that spirituality has 3 main themes. Sub score scales of the spirituality questionnaire were calculated as the mean of their respective items. The revised intrinsicextrinsic religious orientation. Attitudes toward lesbians and gay men atlg scale herek, 1988.
Academic intrinsic 2 assessing academic intrinsic motivation. Measurement of religiosityspirituality in adolescent health. How important is intrinsic spirituality in depression care. Apr 15, 2012 each of these distinctions help nuance our understanding of religion and spirituality. Validation of the intrinsic spirituality scale iss with muslims.
Relationship of spirituality or religion to recovery from. In the test development, the filipino spirituality scale yielded two factors. The purpose of this research was to standardize the greek version of the revised intrinsicextrinsic religious orientation scale on a sample of athens inhabitants. The modified sixitem intrinsic spirituality scale assesses the degree to which spirituality functions as an individuals master motive, for both theistic and non theistic. The intrinsic spirituality scale a new sixitem instrument for assessing the salience of spirituality as a motivational construct david r. This scale was designed to assess four underlying dimensions of intrinsic motivation in a specific situation, namely interestenjoyment, perceived competence, effortimportance. Pdf validation of the intrinsic spirituality scale iss with muslims. Collected in 2011, the sample consists of 290 highrisk and ganginvolved adolescents 1117 years and young adults 1825 years in. In approaching the task of developing scales to measure spirituality and. Spirituality scale please indicate your level of agreement to the following statements by circling the appropriate number that corresponds with the answer key. Intrinsic scale, only the intrinsic scale was used in the analysis. Intrinsic religiousness was not predictive of shame, perfectionism, and eating disorder symptoms. Intrinsic and extrinsic religiosity, belief in the afterlife.
Inspirit assessment reflects intrinsic religiosity and spirituality. The siwb is a valid and reliable instrument that can be used in healthrelated studies. An exploratory factor analysis into the applicability of the spirituality caregiving scale, the spirituality and spiritual care rating scale and the spirituality in occupational therapy scale to the south african context thuli g mthembu, bsc ot uwc, mph uwc phd candidate, department of occupational therapy, university of the western cape. The original scale has 12 questions, which is different from the portuguese translated version with 9 questions. Religiosity was measured using an alternate form of the allport and ross religious orientation scale gorsuch and venable, 1983. This scale is based on the revised version by gorsuch and macpherson 1989 of the original scale by ross 1967. Examining spirituality and intrinsic religious orientation as. Spirituality spirituality is a dynamic and intrinsic aspect of humanity through which persons seek ultimate meaning, purpose and transcendence, and experience relationship to self, family, others, community, society, nature, and the significant or sacred. The revised intrinsicextrinsic religious orientation scale.
The motivations behind such academic persistence vary. Service users and survivors have also identified the ways in which spiritual activity can contribute to mental health and wellbeing. Conceptualization and measurement of spirituality digital. Data analysis was limited to 4 protestants and 149 catholics. A look at student goals and personal strategy academic intrinsic motivation is a factor that is essential for college success. A new sixitem instrument for assessing the salience of spirituality as a motivational construct.
Each of these distinctions help nuance our understanding of religion and spirituality. Religiosity and spiritual beliefs and practices of. Yet religiosity, not spirituality, has dominated the focus of. Spirituality is a dynamic and intrinsic aspect of humanity through which persons seek ultimate meaning, purpose and transcendence, and experience relationship to self, family. Some have wondered whether this scale might be more a measure of agnosticism, of antiorthodoxy, of sophomoric religious doubt, or of religious conflict, if indeed, it is a measure of anything religious at all. The study of spirituality, work value and career decision. Assessing students spiritual and religious qualities. The relationship between intrinsicextrinsic religiosity.
Examining spirituality and intrinsic religious orientation as a means of coping with exam anxiety brendan t. Spiritual experience index revised sei r reference. These questions are answered on a 5point likerttype scale 1 strongly disagree, 5 strongly agree. Spirituality assessment scale sas was also administered in 2002. Positive religious coping can promote healthy adjustment to stress, whereas negative religious coping re. The sample comprised 204 young people between 18 and 25 years of age from two universities in bogota. This is an inventory that measures how spiritualnot necessarily how religiousyou are. In this paper, concerns are addressed regarding the validity of the quest scale introduced by batson 1976 and batson and ventis 1982. Measuring spirituality and religiosity in clinical. Intrinsic and extrinsic religiosity and its effect on. As no gold standard measure of spirituality exists, the instruments most frequently used to establish such validity were measures of religiosity e. The modified sixitem intrinsic spirituality scale assesses the degree to which spirituality functions as an individuals master motive, for both theistic and nontheistic populations, both within and outside of religious frameworks. Spirituality and religion are increasingly being conceptualizing as unique, but overlapping, constructs.
Spirituality is expressed through beliefs, values, traditions and practices. Regarding work value and spirituality, dudeck 2004 found that there was a statistically significant relationship between spirituality and intrinsic work values. Revised intrinsicextrinsic religious orientation scale. Urdu translation and validation of short muslim practice and. I often feel so connected to the people around me that it is like there is no separation between us.
Jul 02, 2011 first, criterionrelated validity with religiousness measures or with other spirituality measures was frequently reported 54%. The ironsonwoods spiritualityreligiousness index is. Allport himself was hesitant to say that intrinsic extrinsic religiosity actually caused prejudice. Spirituality assessment scale, spiritual orientation inventory, index of core spiritual experience. Pdf this study validates an existing spirituality measurethe intrinsic spirituality scale issfor use with muslims in the united states. From the research on spirituality with authenticity. Hodge mcs, msw george warren brown school of social work, washington university, 1 brookings drive, campus box 1196, st. In early 2001, at the same university, the atlg scale was again completed by 179 students 72 males, 106 female, 1 unreported along with the spirituality assessment scale howden, 1992. Development, theoretical description, reliability, exploratory factor analysis, and preliminary construct validity using healthrelated data lynn g. The association of surrogate decision makers religious. Sixtyeight students were recruited for this study, 31 males and 37 females, from a suburban, public, college and had a mean age of 19.
A 15 item muslim experiential religiousness scale operationalized this definition of spirituality in a sample of 627 iranian university and islamic seminary students. Three measures were used to collect the data for this study, including a demographic form, the meaning in life questionnaire mlq and the intrinsic extrinsic religiosity revised scale ier. However, five studies 28, 42, 43, 60, 69 also used the spiritual wellbeing scale 22 as a measure of criterion validity. The iss is comprised of six items and each item consists of phrase completion.
Attitudes toward dreams, attitudes toward lesbians and gay. As hypothesized, religion moderated relationships between intrinsic and extrinsic religiosity scales with death anxiety and afterlife belief. Starting at an early age, the choices one makes based on. Examining spirituality and intrinsic religious orientation. Reliability and validity of spirituality questionnaire by. Intrinsic and extrinsic religiosity, belief in the. The psychological and physical benefits of spiritual. The development of an inclusive spirituality measure. T2 a new sixitem instrument for assessing the salience of spirituality as a motivational construct. Accordingly, in the year prior to the beginning of instrument development the research team read 2 john a. Clearly, at least on a conceptual level, spirituality is related to, but also separate and distinct from religiosity. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise cambridge core to connect with your account. This study validates an existing spirituality measurethe intrinsic spirituality scale iss for use with muslims in the united states. The score ranges from 12 to 60, and higher scores indicate more extrinsic religiosity.
The duke university religion index durel is a fiveitem measure of religious involvement, and was developed for use in large crosssectional and longitudinal observational studies. Particularly the questions about spirituality and about childhood received positive evaluation. A 23item scale that measures faith and spiritual journey, aiming to not impose any particular faith as part of the questions. The impact of spirituality on mental health in the past decade or so, researchers across a range of disciplines have started to explore and acknowledge the positive contribution spirituality can make to mental health.
N2 one facet of the growing interest in spirituality and religion has been the tendency to conceptualize spirituality and religion as distinct, but overlapping, constructs. Hebrew home for the aged at riverdale and columbia university stroud center abstract. The duke religion index 19 is a 5item scale designed to capture the three major dimensions of religiousness as described by koenig and futterman 20. Available formats pdf please select a format to send. Religious coping involves the ways a patient relies on religion to cope with stress. Another example of a contaminated spirituality scale is the spiritual transcendence scale spts, a 24item measure that consists of three subscales. The present study aimed to develop and validate a brief instrument to assess intrinsic religiosity intrinsic religiousness inventory iri in two brazilian samples. The aim of this methodological study was to translate, culturally adapt and assess the internal consistency and validity of the spanish version of the spirituality questionnaire. Academic intrinsic 1 assessing academic intrinsic motivation. Urdu translation and validation of short muslim practice. A large number of students carry out education to or past the college level. Psychosocial factors affecting resilience in nepalese.
Religious coping, spirituality, and substance use and. The new ier scale contains 14 questions tiliopoulos et al. This study validates an existing spirituality measurethe intrinsic spirituality. To find out, take this test, which is adapted from a personality inventory devised by washington university psychiatrist robert cloninger, author of feeling good. Centrality scale cscale recently developed by huber 39,46 which combines allport. Development and validation of the intrinsic religiousness. The spiritual dimension of campers park experience. Though many other scales also intend to measure the aspect of intensitycentrality, they often address another com. Concerns regarding the reliability of the quest scale, which have proved more persistent, are addressed in a companion paper.
Centrality scale c scale recently developed by huber 39,46 which combines allport. Forward backward translation method was used for translation followed by tryout of the scale. Gor such and mcpherson 1989 revised their own already revised scale 1983 in order to encompass the new dimensions. Indicate your response by circling the number from the 6point. An exploratory factor analysis into the applicability of. In this survey, participants were asked 6 questions meant to examine their own personal levels of spirituality. Biggs2 1school of psychology and counselling, queensland university of technology, brisbane, queensland, australia. A confirmatory factor analysis was conducted with a diverse sample of selfidentified muslims n 281.
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