Measuring Spirituality as Personal Belief in Supernatural Forces: Is the Character Strength Inventory-Spirituality subscale a brief, reliable and valid measure?

Critical evaluations of commonly used spirituality measures find many wanting- with most lacking the properties required of scientific measures. Common deficiencies include using non-representative development samples, a failure to satisfy normality assumptions, and the confounding of related-yet-di...

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Main Author: Schuurmans-Stekhoven, James (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Equinox [2014]
In: Implicit religion
Year: 2014, Volume: 17, Issue: 2, Pages: 211-222
Further subjects:B Belief
B Spirituality
B SUPERNATURAL beings
B Ancient Philosophy
B Religious Identity
B Psychometrics
B Scale Development
B Supernatural
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