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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
Reference
for the scale
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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Post Author
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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