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  Woman above cemetery 2023 Geoffrey W Sutton and Bing AI Assessment name:   Connection of Soul Scale (COS) Scale overview: The Connection of Soul Scale (COS) is a 12-item measure of three categories of belief in the life of one’s soul after death: Secular, God-centered, Cosmic-Spiritual Authors: Amy L. Li et al. Response Type: Respondents rate each item on a six-point scale of agreement from 0 = strongly disagree to 5 = strongly agree. Scale items The 12 COS items are associated with one of the three factors or subscales. Each subscale has four items. The secular view reflects a lack of belief in an afterlife. The God-centered view was designed to assess beliefs in Western ideas such as a soul’s existence in paradise or heaven. The Cosmic- spiritual view includes items associated with Eastern religions such as reaching enlightenment or joining with a universal spirit. Psychometric properties In their study, Ai et al. (2014) reported data from three studies. T...

  The  Likelihood of Return to a Christian Counselor (LRCC) is a one-item scale. Participants in a study of Christian counseling answered one question (“Based on your experience, how likely are you to see a Christian counselor if you felt the need for counseling in the future?”) posed in the Likelihood of Return to a Christian Counselor (LRCC; Sutton et al., 2018).  The participants responded on a 5-point scale of likelihood ( Highly likely, Somewhat likely, Neutral, Somewhat unlikely, Not at all likely).  In study 2, the SCC was significantly positively correlated with the following measures: Schwartz Outcome Scale (SOS) . 56 Theistic Outcome Scale (TSOS) . 62 Adult Hope Scale    . 53  Avoidant subscale of the Attachment to God Inventory   -.46 Spiritual Practices Index   .43 Intratextual Fundamentalism Scale    .51 the number of treatment sessions  . 36 Related Scale Satisfaction With Counseling (SWC) Generalization Althou...

  Assessment name:   Islamic Religiosity Scale (IRS) Scale overview: The Islamic Religiosity Scale is a 16-item self-report measure of Islamic beliefs and practices. Authors:   Tiliouine, Habib ;  Cummins, Robert A. ;  Davern, Melanie Response Type: The items are rated on a 5-point Likert-type scale. Scale items: The items refer to Islamic practices such as prayer, studying the Koran, and charity. Psychometric properties Alpha values varied with the subscales (Tiliouine et al., 2009). Availability: Author contact Tiliouine, Habib: htiliouine@yahoo.fr The full set of items can be found in the PsycTESTS reference. Resource Links:    A – Z Test Index    A - Z Index of Spiritual & Religious Assessment  References for the scale: Tiliouine, H., Cummins, R. A., & Davern, M. (2009). Islamic Religiosity Scale. PsycTESTS . https://doi.org/10.1037/t18902-000 Tiliouine, H., Cummins, R. A., & Davern, M. (200...

  Assessment name:   Knowledge-Practice Measure of Islamic Religiosity (KPMIR) Scale overview: The Knowledge-Practice Measure of Islamic Religiosity (KPMIR) Author: Mohammad Adnan Alghorani Response Type: Multiple choice Scales and items: There are 100 items in the overall KPMIR measure, which has two scales: Islamic Knowledge and Islamic Practice. The Islamic Knowledge scale includes five subscales: Knowledge of Creed, Worship, Appearance, Jurisprudence, History. The Islamic Practice scale has four subscales: Practice of Creed, Worship, Appearance, and Jurisprudence. Psychometric properties The sample was 211 Muslim students in a US High School. Content validity was based on the expert judgment of Muslim scholars. Internal consistency values were high for the full scale and the subscales. Cronbach alpha values   Full scale = .920     Islamic Knowledge = .842       Islamic Practice = .882 See Alghorani (2008) for detail...

Jama Masjid, India   Assessment name:   Muslim Attitudes Toward Religion Scale (MARS) Scale overview: The Muslim Attitudes Toward Religion Scale (MARS) is a 14-item measure of Islamic religiosity (Wilde & Joseph, 1997). Authors: Wilde & Joseph Response Type: 5-point Likert scale ranging from strongly disagree (1) to strongly agree (5) . Scores on the total scale have a possible range of 14 to 70, with higher scores indicating a more positive attitude Scale items There are three subscales (with sample items)   Personal Help: “Saying my prayer helps me a lot.”   Muslim Worldview: “I like to learn about Allah very much.”   Muslims’ Practices: “I pray five times a day.” Psychometric properties Internal consistency was high (alpha = .93) and there is support for construct validity and concurrent validity based on correlations with other measures of religiosity (Ghorbani et al., 2000; Wilde & Joseph, 1997). Ghorbani et al. (2000) ide...