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Worldview Beliefs measure

 

American Church 2024 by
Geoffrey W. Sutton & Designer


Assessment name: Worldview Beliefs

Scale overview: The Worldview Beliefs is a measure of 10 beliefs commonly held by American Christians.

Authors: Aaron T. McLaughlin and others (see reference below)

Response Type: Five-point rating scale ranging from less to more conservative with 3 = a neutral rating.

Scale items: There are 10 beliefs in the scale. The topics are as follows:

  Abortion

  Acceptable marriage partners

  Acceptable sex

  Creation-evolution

  Birth control

  Religious values and politics

  Alcohol consumption

  Women as pastors/ religious teachers

 

Psychometric properties

The authors provide means and standard deviations in Table 1.

Internal consistency (Cronbach’s alpha) = .79.

Comments

The measure along with other items presented in the article offer a perspective on several components of a Christian worldview. The different ways groups responded to the items reminds us that Christians have different worldviews some of which may work better in collaborative efforts between psychotherapists and Christian clergy.

For measures that look at some similar beliefs or sociomoral values held by Christian counselors, see the social values measure in Sutton et al., (2016) and find the items in this page: Christian Social Values Index.

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 Worldviews in Psychology.

Availability: The items can be found in a supplement to the article. https://supp.apa.org/psycarticles/supplemental/scp0000258/scp0000258_supp.html

The corresponding author is: Aaron McLaughlin, College of Education & Human Development, Department of Counseling Psychology, Georgia State University, Suite 950, 30 Pryor St. SW Atlanta, GA 30303, United States. Email: amclaughlin9@ student.gsu.edu

References:


McLaughlin, A. T., Davis, D. E., Hook, J. N., Hodge, A. S., Choe, E., McMinn, M. C., Worthington, E. L., Jr., & Van Tongeren, D. R. (2022). Approaches to understanding and aligning with religious leaders: A latent profile analysis of religious leaders’ worldviews. Spirituality in Clinical Practice, 9(2), 73–86. https://doi.org/10.1037/scp0000258



Sutton, G. W., Arnzen, C., & Kelly, H. (2016). Christian counseling and psychotherapy: Components of clinician spirituality that predict type of Christian intervention. Journal of Psychology and Christianity, 35, 204-214.

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