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AI image Suttong.com 2025 Scale overview: The Spiritual Abuse Questionnaire-Short Form is a 4-item self-report instrument. Participants rate each item on a 4-point scale of agreement. [ Read more about Spiritual or Religious Abuse.] Authors : Kaelyn R. Griffin and others – see reference below. Response Type : A 4-point rating scale of agreement 1 = Strongly disagree 4 = Strongly agree Scale items The 4 items are found in the PsycTests reference and the journal article mentioned below. The items address severe criticism, fear-based control, and inducing shame or helplessness. See below for how to find the items. Psychometric properties Overall, the initial data support adequate reliability and validity in the US sample. Means and SDs ( Standard Deviations ) are provided in Table 1 of the journal article. No problems were noted for skew or kurtosis . The results include interitem correlations and findings from EFA , CFA , and measurement invariance testing. Reliability data revealed...

  Assessment name:   Divine Spiritual Struggles Scale Scale overview: The Divine Spiritual Struggles Scale measures the degree of distress experienced by adolescents in their relationship with God or a higher power. Scale data were obtained from a sample of adolescents who reported sexual abuse.   Authors: Ernest Jouriles and others (2020).  See scale reference below.     Response Type: Four items are rated on a 4-point scale of frequency related to feeling “punished, abandoned, and questioned God’s love” when they thought about sexual abuse in the preceding month.  0 = not at all  1 = somewhat  2 = quite a bit  3 = a great deal Scale items The four items in the scale can be found in the PsycTESTS reference below. Psychometric properties The scale was used in two studies (see Jouriles et al., 2020) with a combined n of 347 adolescents who had a mean age of 13.53 and 13.71, respectively. More than 90% were...

  Scale name: Spiritual Abuse Questionnaire (SAQ) Scale overview: The  Spiritual Abuse Questionnaire (SAQ)  is a 17-item self-report questionnaire that uses a 4-point Likert Type response format to measure two dimensions of abuse: Power-based affective wounding and Conditionality. Author: Kathryn Hope Keller   Response Type: 4-point Likert type. The choices are: Strongly disagree, Disagree, Agree, Strongly agree. Subscales and Sample Items: There are two subscales. 1. Power-based Affective Wounding : “At times, I was scolded by my leader and made to feel ashamed and helpless” and “I now feel cynical about church/religious groups.”   2. Conditionality: “I believed I could be totally surrendered to God if I did everything perfectly according to the church/group’s instructions,” and “I believed God would punish me if I didn’t do what my church/group encouraged me to do.” Reliability: Alpha for the 17-item scale was .95 (Keller, 2016). ...