Scale
name: Attitudes and Experiences of Evangelical Christians with Mental Distress
Scale
overview: Lloyd and
Waller (2020) used nine items to assess the relationship of spiritual etiology
to mental distress in a British sample (n = 446).
Response
Type and items:
The 9-questions
were organized into three groups. Respondents were presented with different
response options depending on the question.
1. Spiritualization
of Mental Distress 1-4
Example:
Has your current or previous church or related teaching taught that mental
distress was the result of demons, spirits or generational curses? Response
options were yes, no, or unsure.
2. Views
on secular/psychological treatments 5 – 7.
Example: 5.
Do you believe psychological treatments, such as therapy, can be successful in
treating mental distress? Response options were yes, no, or unsure. Questions
6-7 asked about church support.
3. Interaction
with the Church community 8-9
Example:
Overall, how do you feel about your church’s attitude towards mental distress?
This was rated on a 5-point scale of very positive to very negative. The next
items asked, “How has your interaction with the church, in relation to your
mental health, affected your faith?” Response options were Strengthened it, Not
impacted it, or Weakened it.
The
researchers also asked about the cause of mental distress. Respondents had five
options. Examples include traumatic or negative life experiences and Other
spiritual causes (generational curses, demonic, the occult, etc.)
Results
The
researchers reported the percentage of responses endorsed in two tables and
provided a summary in the text. In the discussion, they note differences with
similar surveys in the United States
Availability:
The questions
can be found in the article below. The 9-questions are in Table 1 along with
the answers.
Reference
for the scale
Christopher
E. M. Lloyd & Robert M. Waller (2020): Demon? Disorder? Or none of the
above? A survey of the attitudes and experiences of evangelical Christians with
mental distress, Mental Health, Religion & Culture, DOI:
10.1080/13674676.2019.1675148
Pdf found on Researchgate 7 September 2022
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