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Religious and Spiritual Struggles Scale- 5-Item (RSS-5)


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Assessment name: Religious and Spiritual Struggles Scale- 5-Item (RSS-5)

Scale overview:

The five-item version of the Religious and Spiritual Struggles Scale (RSS-5) is a reliable measure of clinically relevant struggles (divine, interpersonal, moral, doubt, ultimate meaning struggles) in mental health care settings.

Authors: Sarah G. Salcone, Julie J. Exline, Kenneth I. Pargament, Joseph M. Currier, Ryon C. McDermott, Don E. Davis, Amanda M. Raines, Yejin Lee

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Sutton, G.W. (2025). Religious and Spiritual Struggles Scale- 5-Item (RSS-5). Assessment, Statistics, and Research.  https://statistics.suttong.com/2025/03/religious-and-spiritual-struggles-scale.html

Response Type: Participants rated each item on a scale of occurrence from 1 = Not at all to 5 = A great deal. 

Scale items: There are five items–one from each of the five subscales of the long RSS scale.

   Example

Questioned whether life really matters.

Felt as though God had abandoned me.

Psychometric properties

The authors provide strong evidence of internal consistency as well as factorial, incremental, and convergent validity. Data are available from three studies.

Availability: The five items are available in the article listed below. (Open Access)

Reference for the scale:

Salcone, S.G., Currier, J.M., McDermott, R.C. et al. Development and Evaluation of the Religious and Spiritual Struggles Scale-5 (RSS-5). J Psychopathol Behav Assess 47, 8 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10862-024-10182-9


Organizing information from this measure

Data from the RSS-5 are within the core S - SELF domain in the SCOPES model as a measure of an aspect of spiritual identity and linked to the C (Cognitive) dimension as a set of beliefs and to E (Emotion) dimension when a struggle evokes emotional responses.

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