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Religious Belief Salience (RBS)

 


Assessment name:  Religious Belief Salience (RBS)

Scale overview: The Religious Belief Salience measure is a five-item measure of religiosity.

Blaine and Crocker adapted an older scale developed by King and Hunt (Religiosity Salience-Cognition Scale, 1975) by removing three items.

Authors: Bruce Blaine and Jennifer Crocker

Response Type: A 7-point rating scale of agreement: 1 = strongly disagree, 7 = strongly agree

Scale items

The items include references to religious beliefs and a meaningful life, the influence of religious beliefs on one’s life, and the personal importance of religion.

Psychometric properties

Cronbach’s Alpha = .94

Means and Standard Deviations are included for the sample of American undergraduates.

The RBS was positively correlated with measures of Satisfaction with Life and Wellbeing and negatively correlated with measures of Depression and Hopelessness. The correlations were significant.

 

Availability:

The full set of items are in the Blaine and Crocker (1995) article.

A related resource

Assessing Spirituality & Religiosity A Handbook

Beliefs, Practices, Values, & Experiences

 

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Resource Links:


  A – Z Test Index

  A - Z Index of Spiritual & Religious Assessment 

Reference for the scale

Blaine, B., & Crocker, J. (1995). Religiousness, race, and psychological well-being: Exploring social psychological mediators. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 21(10), 1031–1041. https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672952110004

King, M. B., & Hunt, R. A. (1975). Measuring the religious variable: National replication. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 14(1), 13–22. https://doi.org/10.2307/1384452

Schutt, W. A., & Exline, J. J. (2023, May 18). Do Adults Believe That God or the Devil Can Influence Their Conscience? Links Between Religion/Spirituality, Beliefs About the Conscience, and Attempts to Follow One’s Conscience. Spirituality in Clinical Practice. Advance online publication. https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/scp0000320

 

Note

Schutt and Exline used the Religious Belief Salience items as a measure of religiosity in their study of conscience (2023).

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