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Religious Head: Heart Beliefs Scale by Park & Carney

 

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Assessment name:  Religious Head: Heart Beliefs Scale

Scale overview: The Religious Head: Heart Beliefs Scale is a 26-item self-report measure of religious beliefs.

The concepts of head and heart were explained in the authors’ literature review. Briefly, head beliefs refer to propositions and mental representations of reality in memory. Heart beliefs refer to implicit and intuitive knowledge, which includes affect. See Park and Carney (2022).

Authors: Crystal Park and Carney 2022

Response Type: Items are rated on a scale using a 1 (strongly disagree) to 5 (strongly agree) format with a “cannot say” option.

Subscales and Examples of Scale items

The 26 items are assigned to subscales. The full scale is in the PsycTESTS reference.

Supernatural beliefs

  There exists an all-powerful, all-knowing, loving God

Two Views of God Subscales

   Positive views of God

            Kind

   Negative views of God

            angry

Three Perceptions of God’s Actions Subscales

  Supportive

            God comforts me

   Ruling/punishing

            God punishes

   Passive

            God leaves people to their own devices

 

Psychometric properties

Cronbach alpha values were reported for the subscales and ranged from .77 to .95 in a study of 512 adults.

Construct validity was supported by results of factor analyses.

Concurrent validity was supported by correlations with several measures in a study of adults.

Availability: See Park and Carney (2022)

A related resource

Assessing Spirituality & Religiosity A Handbook

Beliefs, Practices, Values, & Experiences

 

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Reference for the scale

 Park, C. L., & Carney, L. M. (2022). Religious head versus heart beliefs: Measurement development and validation. Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, 14(4), 572–584. https://doi.org/10.1037/rel0000352

Park, C. L., & Carney, L. M. (2021). Religious Head: Heart Beliefs Scale [Database record]. Retrieved from PsycTESTS. doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/t79755-000

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