An Evaluation of the Incremental Validity of the Spiritual Experience Index-Revised
An analysis of the Spiritual Experience Index-Revised confirmed the presence of two distinct dimensions: Spiritual Support and Spiritual Openness. Further analysis examined the incremental validity of each scale in comparison with personality as measured by the Five Factor Model. Spiritual Support c...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2000
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| In: |
Research in the social scientific study of religion
Year: 2000, Volume: 11, Pages: 117-131 |
| Further subjects: | B
History of religion studies
B Social sciences B Religionswissenschaften B Religion & Gesellschaft |
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| Summary: | An analysis of the Spiritual Experience Index-Revised confirmed the presence of two distinct dimensions: Spiritual Support and Spiritual Openness. Further analysis examined the incremental validity of each scale in comparison with personality as measured by the Five Factor Model. Spiritual Support correlated with personality agreeableness, religious attendance and prayer frequency, prayer and God satisfaction, and experience of the presence of God. Spiritual Support provided incremental variance over personality in the prediction of most religious variables, racism, sexual attitude tolerance, and life satisfaction. Spiritual Openness correlated with personality Openness to Experience, broad-minded religious self identification, but not with most religious variables. Spiritual Openness provided incremental variance over personality in the prediction of racism and sexual attitude tolerance, but not most religious variables or life satisfactions. These results support the validity and usefulness of the Spiritual Support subscale, but call into question the validity of Spiritual Openness as a spiritual construct. |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Research in the social scientific study of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/9789004493278_009 |