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God’s and Satan’s Involvement in Life Events

 


Assessment name:  Preliminary Belief Questions About God’s and Satan’s Involvement in Life Events

Scale overview: The Preliminary Belief Questions About God’s and Satan’s Involvement in Life Events is a 9-item survey used to evaluate the beliefs of Christian participants before they completed a study revealing their attribution of positive and negative events to God or Satan.

Authors: Ray, Shanna D., Lockman, Jennifer D., Jones, Emily J., & Kelly, Melanie H. (2015)

Response Type: Responses for the 9 items ranged from 1 to 5 on a 5-point rating scale from Strongly disagree , Disagree , No Opinion , Agree , to Strongly agree.

Scale items

There are nine items forming one scale. Six items refer to God’s involvement in life events. For example, items refer to God as causing positive or negative events. Two items mention Satan and refer to Satan’s existence and power to cause negative events.

Psychometric properties

The survey was completed by 109 participants. The results were reported as the percentage of people who endorsed any of the five agreement options.  For example, 95.4% believed in the existence of God or an equivalent higher power and 81.7% believed in the existence of Satan or an equivalent power.

Availability: See Table 1 on page 63 of Ray et al., (2015b) or the PsycTESTS reference.

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Reference for the scale

Ray, S. D., Lockman, J. D., Jones, E. J., & Kelly, M. H. (2015a). Attributions to God and Satan about life-altering events. Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, 7(1), 60–69. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0037884

Ray, S. D., Lockman, J. D., Jones, E. J., & Kelly, M. H. (2015b). Preliminary Belief Questions [Database record]. Retrieved from PsycTESTS. doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/t38779-000

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 Notes on the study

Participants viewed God as highly involved in the details of life.

Prayer was not a predictor of God's involvement in a life situation.

As in other studies, Christians do not attribute negative events to God.

Other people may be seen as agents of God or Satan.

The participants attributed internal psychological experiences to God or Satan.

See the full article for details.

 

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