Assessment
name: Injustice Gap Scale (IGS)
Scale
overview: The
4-item Injustice Gap Scale (IGS) was created to assess the gap experienced following
an offense. The studies focused on the idea that the size of the justice gap is
related to the difficulty in forgiving an offense.
Authors: Don Davis and others
Response
Type: Items are
rated on a visual scale of agreement between 0 = strongly disagree to 100 =
strongly agree.
Scale
items
There are
4-items stating beliefs about God (or the Sacred) ensuring that justice will
prevail.
Psychometric
properties
Factor
analysis revealed support for a single factor. The factor loadings ranged from .74
to .91 and Cronbach’s alpha was .90. Correlations with other measures supported
concurrent validity.
Availability:
The list of
all 4 items is available in the PsycTESTS reference. The measure is available
to use for noncommercial and educational purposes without seeking permission.
References
for the scale
Davis, Don E.,
Yang, Xioahui, DeBlaere, Cirleen, McElroy, Stacey E., Van Tongeren, Daryl R.,
Hook, Joshua N., & Worthington, Everett L. (2016). The injustice gap.
Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, Vol 8(3), 175-184. doi:
https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/rel0000042
Davis, D. E.,
Yang, X., DeBlaere, C., McElroy, S. E., Van Tongeren, D. R., Hook, J. N., &
Worthington, E. L., Jr. (2016). Relinquishing Justice to the Sacred Measure
[Database record]. Retrieved from PsycTESTS. doi:
https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/t53181-000
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