Assessment, Statistics, and Research

Assessment name:   Theistic Intellectual Humility Scale Scale overview: The Theistic Intellectual Humility Scale (TIHS) is an 11-item self-report rating scale of intellectual humility in relationship to God.   Authors: Peter Hill and others (2021)   Response Type: Items are rated on a 6-point scale of agreement from strongly disagree to strongly agree. Scale items There are 11 items associated with three factors:   1. Intellectual submission to the Divine   2. Human Finite Limitations   3. Belief Bias and Limitations Although the scale is labeled theistic and the factor 1 refers to “the Divine”, the items refer to God or the Bible. Item 11 includes the phrase “Christian beliefs.” Psychometric properties The first sample included 353 Christians who were mostly Protestant. The second sample included 318 Christians—some of them were from a Christian university. And the third sample included 235 Christians. The results of factor analyses supported the three factor

  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., & Pargament, K. I. (2012). S

  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 (see scale reference)     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 girls. Most of the girls identified as Christian. Reliability and

  Scale  name: Assessment of Spirituality and Religious Sentiments (ASPIRES) scale- Short Form Scale overview : The Assessment of Spirituality and Religious Sentiments scale- Short Form (ASPIRES-SF) is a 13-item scale that measures both religious involvement and spiritual transcendence. Spiritual transcendence refers to the way people create a sense of meaning and purpose for their lives. Authors : Ralph L. Piedmont et al. (see below) Response Type: The ASPIRES-SF is a self-report assessment with different ratings for the two subscales—see below. Subscales = 2 1.   Religiosity Index   4-religious activity (e.g., prayer, reading religious literature) items are rated 1-7 to indicate frequency. 2.   Spiritual Transcendence Scale   9-items are rated on a 1-5 scale of agreement. The items refer to a sense of meaning. These 9-items reflect 3 facets: Prayer fulfilment, Universality, and Connectedness. Reliability : In the 2008 reference (see below) alpha values were .72

  Scale name: Internal / External Religious Orientation Scale Revised 3-Item Scale overview:   The 3-item Revised Internal / External Religious Orientation Scale measures the degree to which people view their religion as important to their life [(Intrinsic (I)] or as a means to an end [(Extrinsic personally (Ep) or Extrinsic socially oriented (Es)]. Authors: Richard L. Gorsuch and Susan E. McPherson Response Type: A 5-point rating scale with anchors labeled Strongly Disagree and Strongly Agree Subscales: There are three subscales in the revised edition. I = Intrinsic Ep = Extrinsic personal Es = Extrinsic social   The 3 subscale items I = My whole approach to life is based upon my religion. Ep = What religion offers me most is comfort in times of trouble and sorrow. Es = I go to church mainly because I enjoy seeing people I know there. Reliability: The larger 14-item scale from which the above three best items were drawn yielded high test-retest reliability

  Scale name: Santa Clara Strength of Religious Faith Questionnaire,   SCSRF, SCSRFQ Short form as an “Abbreviated” form, ASCSRFQ Scale overview A short easy to score measure of the strength of a person’s religious or spiritual faith. It is a available in 10-item and 5-item Likert-type scale formats. Author(s) Thomas G. Plante and Marcus T. Boccaccini introduced the 10-item version in 1997. Items: 10 and 5 for the short form   Response Type: 4-point self-report rating scale Subscales: None   Sample items 2. I pray daily. 10. My faith impacts many of my decisions. The short form uses the following 5-items: 2,4,5,8 (Plante et al., 2002). Statistics In the 1997 article, psychology students M = 26.39, SD   = 8.55, R = 33, Mdn = 26. A summary of previous studies using the 10-item version (Plante, 2010) found M = 26-33 in college samples with SD   = 6 to 8. There were no significant differences between the means of men ( M = 17.48, SD   = 2.52) and