Introducing the South African Spirituality Scale (SASS): measuring spirituality among medical students in a heterogeneous clinical environment
The purpose was to develop a standardised scale of spirituality that can be used in clinical settings across the heterogeneous spectrum of South African cultural, religious and faith traditions. Participants (n = 445) were recruited from local health science students and Factor Analysis with promax...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Taylor & Francis
2020
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Mental health, religion & culture
Year: 2020, Volume: 23, Issue: 3/4, Pages: 245-262 |
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Spirituality
B heterogeneous clinical environment B Measure B South Africa |
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| Summary: | The purpose was to develop a standardised scale of spirituality that can be used in clinical settings across the heterogeneous spectrum of South African cultural, religious and faith traditions. Participants (n = 445) were recruited from local health science students and Factor Analysis with promax (oblique) rotation was used to determine underlying dimensions in the data. Finally, a Factor Analysis of 32 items was conducted with six factors explaining 61% of the variance. Internal consistency for each of the scales examined using Cronbach's alpha, was adequate with all alphas > .7. All the subscales were significantly correlated with p < .0001, with only the positive correlation between "Beyond" and "Meaning" (r = .63) found to be of note. Six distinct reasonably internally consistent factors were identified to underlie the responses to the spirituality scale items, namely: "Beyond", "Awareness". "Meaning", "Others", "Journey" and "Connection". These results can be used to further develop this local measure of spirituality. |
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| ISSN: | 1469-9737 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Mental health, religion & culture
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/13674676.2020.1741529 |