Scale name: Internal / External Religious Orientation Scale Revised 3-Item
Scale overview:
The 3-item
Revised Internal / External Religious Orientation Scale measures the degree to
which people view their religion as important to their life [(Intrinsic (I)] or
as a means to an end [(Extrinsic personally (Ep) or Extrinsic socially oriented
(Es)].
Authors:
Richard L. Gorsuch
and Susan E. McPherson
Response
Type: A 5-point
rating scale with anchors labeled Strongly Disagree and Strongly Agree
Subscales: There are three subscales in the
revised edition.
I = Intrinsic
Ep = Extrinsic personal
Es = Extrinsic social
The 3 subscale
items
I = My
whole approach to life is based upon my religion.
Ep = What
religion offers me most is comfort in times of trouble and sorrow.
Es = I go
to church mainly because I enjoy seeing people I know there.
Reliability: The larger 14-item scale from which
the above three best items were drawn yielded high test-retest reliability
values.
Validity: The authors used factor analysis to
identify the three factors then selected the best item from each factor for the
single item measures.
The content
of the items is based on the theory of intrinsic and extrinsic religious
orientations presented by Allport and Ross.
Availability:
The scale is
available on page 352 of the 1989 article.
References
Allport,
G.W. & Ross, J.M. (1967). Personal religious orientation and prejudice.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 5, 423-433.
Gorsuch, R.
L. & McPherson, S. E. (1989). Intrinsic/extrinsic measurement: I/E-Revised
and single-item scales. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 28,
348-354.
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