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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...

Prayers 2025 Geoffrey W Sutton & Artspace.ai 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 Cite this post 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 li...

Assessment name:  Adolescent Religious Coping Scale Scale overview: The Adolescent Religious Coping Scale is a multidimensional measure of adolescent religious coping developed to assess the relationship between religious coping and emotional functioning.  Authors : Jeffrey P. Bjorck and others – see 2010 reference below Response Type : Self-report ratings Scale items: There are seven subscales as follows organized in two groupings: I. ACTIVE COPING 1 Positive God focused Coping 2 Seeking Religious Support 3 Constructive Distraction II. PASSIVE COPING 4 Questioning 5 Avoidance 6 Denial 7 Deferring Psychometric properties The main sample data were gathered from 2 Christian schools in Southern California. (N = 500) The second sample was from a Church of Christ Congregation in Texas (N = 62). The results of factor analysis supported 7 factors and 39 total items. Cronbach alpha values are provided in the article. There is support for content, construct, and concurrent validity in...

  Geoffrey Sutton 2023 created in Canva Assessment name:   Religious and Spiritual Struggles Scale--14 Item Version (RSS-14) Scale overview: The Religious and Spiritual Struggles Scale--14 Item Version (RSS-14) was developed to assess personal experiences with religious or spiritual struggles in six domains when a brief questionnaire is more suitable than the longer 26-item version. Follow this link to the 26-item version. Authors: Julia Exline et al. (2022) Response Type: A rating scale of frequency of experience: : 1 (not at all/does not apply), 2 (a little bit), 3 (somewhat), 4 (quite a bit), and 5 (a great deal). Scale items Like the longer version, this shorter 14-item version assigns scale items to 6 categories of struggle : Divine (Div); Demonic (Dem); Interpersonal (Int); Moral (Mor); Doubt (Dbt); Ultimate meaning (Ult). Samples    Divine - felt as though God had abandoned me    Doubt- felt troubled by doubts or questions about...

  Assessment name:   Spiritual Struggles Interview Overview: The Spiritual Struggles Interview (SSI) is a structured interview, which includes a set of questions regarding a life problem that included a spiritual aspect.   Authors:   Maria Gear Haugen, and Kenneth Pargament   Response Type: A spoken response to a series of open-ended questions. Items The items are in the form of questions, which the authors describe as three types. A brief description follows. 1. With the divine- questions regarding how the person perceived God in the situation. 2. With others- questions related to relationships, forgiveness, and religious practices like prayer. 3. Within the person – questions about inner conflicts, doubts, and self-blame.   Availability: The full set of questions are available in the PsycTESTS reference below. The questions may be used for educational and research purposes.   Reference for the scale Haugen, M. R. G....