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Scale of Religious Cultural Consonance

 


Assessment name:  Scale of Religious Cultural Consonance

Scale overview: The Scale of Religious Cultural Consonance is a 27-item measure of the cultural expectations of a religious group. Respondents indicate their self-rating on a 4-point scale, which will result in a measure of consonance with the cultural expectations. In the study, the list reflected expectations of Brazilian Pentecostals.

Author: H.J. François Dengah II

Response Type and item content:

The response types are 4-point ratings with different anchors appropriate to the item content.

Items 1- 16: A scale of agreement with descriptions of religious life

Items 17 – 25 a scale of frequency of religious practices

Item 26 a scale of activeness in church

Item 27 a scale of strength of testimony

Psychometric properties

The article includes basic descriptive statistics of means and standard deviations. Cronbach’s Alpha was 0.84.

Availability:

The items can be found in the article found in Social Science and Medicine. They are also available in the PsycTESTS database.

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Beliefs, Practices, Values, & Experiences

 

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References for the scale

Dengah, H. J. F., II. (2014). How religious status shapes psychological well-being: Cultural consonance as a measure of subcultural status among Brazilian Pentecostals. Social Science & Medicine, 114, 18-25. doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.05.028

Dengah, H. J. F., II. (2014). Scale of Religious Cultural Consonance [Database record]. Retrieved from PsycTESTS. doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/t36713-000

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