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Religious and Spiritual Struggles Scale--14 Item Version (RSS-14)

 

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Assessment name:  Religious and Spiritual Struggles Scale--14 Item Version (RSS-14)

Scale overview: The Religious and Spiritual Struggles Scale--14 Item Version (RSS-14) was developed to assess personal experiences with religious or spiritual struggles in six domains when a brief questionnaire is more suitable than the longer 26-item version.

Follow this link to the 26-item version.

Authors: Julia Exline et al. (2022)

Response Type: A rating scale of frequency of experience: : 1 (not at all/does not apply), 2 (a little bit), 3 (somewhat), 4 (quite a bit), and 5 (a great deal).

Scale items

Like the longer version, this shorter 14-item version assigns scale items to 6 categories of struggle: Divine (Div); Demonic (Dem); Interpersonal (Int); Moral (Mor); Doubt (Dbt); Ultimate meaning (Ult).

Samples

   Divine - felt as though God had abandoned me

   Doubt- felt troubled by doubts or questions about religion or spirituality

Psychometric properties

See the articles for details.

Cronbach’s alpha values range from .75 for the Interpersonal subscale to .88 for the Divine and Demonic subscales.

Validity studies support the purpose of the scale.

Construct validity using CFA supported a six factor model.

 

Availability:

The PsycTESTS reference includes the full 14-item scale.

Reference for the scale

Exline, Julie J., Pargament, Kenneth I., Wilt, Joshua A., Grubbs, Joshua B., & Yali, Ann Marie. (May 05, 2022). The RSS-14: Development and preliminary validation of a 14-item form of the Religious and Spiritual Struggles Scale. Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, np. doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/rel0000472

Exline, J. J., Pargament, K. I., Wilt, J. A., Grubbs, J. B., & Yali, A. M. (2022). Religious and Spiritual Struggles Scale--14 Item Version [Database record]. Retrieved from PsycTESTS. doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/t85225-000


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Read more about spiritual struggles

https://suttonpsychology.blogspot.com/2020/01/spiritual-struggles.html


Organizing information from this measure

Data from the RSS-5 are within the core S - SELF domain in the SCOPES model as a measure of an aspect of spiritual identity and linked to the C (Cognitive) dimension as a set of beliefs and to E (Emotion) dimension when a struggle evokes emotional responses.

  

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Geoffrey W. Sutton PhD is Emeritus Professor of Psychology who publishes book and articles about clinical and social psychology including the psychology of religion. Website:     www.suttong.com

  

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