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Santa Clara Sacredness Scale-Overview

Sacred Places, 2026

Assessment name: Santa Clara Sacredness Scale

Scale overview:

The Santa Clara Sacredness Scale, developed by Plante and Gustavel (2026), is a concise, publicly available questionnaire designed to evaluate an individual's perception of sacredness. This 10-item scale demonstrates satisfactory psychometric properties, such as an alpha coefficient of .81 (Sutton, 2026, May 13).

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Sutton, G. W. (2026, May 13). Santa Clara Sacredness Scale-Overview. Assessment, Statistics, and Research. https://statistics.suttong.com/2026/05/santa-clara-sacredness-scale.html

Authors: Thomas Plante and Isabella Gustavel

Response Type: 

Items are evaluated using a 4-point Likert scale. Participants indicate their level of agreement by selecting a response from 1 (strongly disagree) to 4 (strongly agree).


Scale items (Examples)


___ 1. I believe that God/the divine/the sacred is present within everyone.

___ 2. I see the sacred or divine in others, even if I don’t agree with or like them.

The 10-items are available online--see below.


Psychometric properties

Scores on the Santa Clara Sacredness Scale range from 10, indicating very low sacredness, to 40, representing very high sacredness. The average score was 26.75 with a standard deviation of 5.31. The median score was 27, while the mode was 28. Intertest split-half reliability was found to be r = 0.73 (p < .001), and Cronbach’s alpha, which assesses internal consistency, was 0.81.


Women had higher sacredness scores than men, with a mean score of 27.64 (SD = 5.02, n = 229) compared to men’s mean of 24.91 (SD = 5.29, n = 102).

Availability:

The article and 10-item scale are available online: https://rdcu.be/fiuEN

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References

Reference for the Santa Clara Sacredness Scale

Plante, T., Gustavel, I. (2026). The Santa Clara Sacredness Scale. Pastoral Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11089-026-01326-7
Published online 8 April 2026

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Post Author

Geoffrey W. Sutton, Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Evangel University, holds a master’s degree in counseling and a PhD in psychology from the University of Missouri-Columbia. His postdoctoral work encompassed education and supervision in forensic and neuropsychology. As a licensed psychologist, he conducted clinical and neuropsychological evaluations and provided psychotherapy for patients in various settings, including schools, hospitals, and private offices. During his tenure as a professor, Dr. Sutton taught courses on psychotherapy, assessment, and research. He has authored over one hundred publications, including books, book chapters, and articles in peer-reviewed psychology journals. His website is https://suttong.com You can find Dr. Sutton's books on   AMAZON    and  GOOGLE. Many publications are free to download at ResearchGate   and Academia  

 

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