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  brain-heart by Geoffrey Sutton & Bing AI 2023 Assessment name:   Religious Head: Heart Beliefs Scale Scale overview: The Religious Head: Heart Beliefs Scale is a 26-item self-report measure of religious beliefs. The concepts of head and heart were explained in the authors’ literature review. Briefly, head beliefs refer to propositions and mental representations of reality in memory. Heart beliefs refer to implicit and intuitive knowledge, which includes affect. See Park and Carney (2022). Authors: Crystal Park and Carney 2022 Response Type: Items are rated on a scale using a 1 (strongly disagree) to 5 (strongly agree) format with a “cannot say” option. Subscales and Examples of Scale items The 26 items are assigned to subscales. The full scale is in the PsycTESTS reference. Supernatural beliefs   There exists an all-powerful, all-knowing, loving God Two Views of God Subscales    Positive views of God      ...

  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 religion or spirituality ...

  Peaceful/ Geoffrey Sutton & Bing AI 2023 Scale overview: The Interpretation of Death Scale (IOD) is a 14-item multidimensional measure of adult’s self-reported interpretations of death and related concepts such as afterlife beliefs, suffering, and meaning of life. Authors: Fortuin, Nienke P. M and others Response Type: 5-point Likert scale ranging from 1 (disagree completely) to 5 (agree completely) Scale items: There are 14 items. Sample items   I believe that after death we leave the earthly realm and enter the heavenly realm of God.   My consciousness will utterly cease to exist when my brain stops functioning Item notes (page 8 of Fortuin et al., 2021) All items were originally phrased in Dutch and have been translated by the first author. In order to explicate what is meant by God, we wrote above this scale: “It is important that, where ‘God’ is mentioned, we do not necessarily mean the Christian God. You can also read ‘the creator’, ‘Al...

Assessment name:   Perceptions and Experiences of Grace Scale--Short Form Scale overview: The Perceptions and Experiences of Grace Scale--Short Form Authors: Christina Rush and others Response Type: 7-point rating scale: 1 = Strongly Disagree, 2 = Disagree, 3 = Slightly Disagree, 4=Neutral, 5=Slightly Agree, 6=Agree, 7=Strongly Agree. Scale items There are two versions of the scale. One has 21 items and the other has 29 items. The items are organized into six factors as follows. See the reference below for the items related to each factor. God’s grace Grace to self Grace received from works Unconditional grace to others Conditional grace to others Conditional grace from parents   Psychometric properties Internal consistency alpha values were strong and reported for each factor. Test-retest reliability was reported for a 5 month interval and the values were.70 or above. Construct validity was supported by factor analysis. Correlations...

  Assessment name:   Transcendent Indebtedness to God Scale (T-ITG) Scale overview: The Transcendent Indebtedness to God Scale (T-ITG) is a 6-item self-report measure of feelings of indebtedness toward God. Authors: Janae Nelson, Sam Hardy, Philip Watkins Response Type: Scale items Psychometric properties Internal consistency alpha = .83 Construct validity supported by factor analysis revealing one factor. Convergent validity support evident in correlations with other measures e.g., .66 with gratitude to God. The scale was not significantly correlated with narcissism. Availability: Listed author contact: jenaenelson@byu.edu The full set of 6 items can be found in the PsycTESTS reference. Reference for the scale Nelson, Jenae M. (2023). Transcendent indebtedness to  God : A new construct in the psychology of religion and spirituality. Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, 15 (1), 105-117. doi: 10.1037/rel0000458 Nelson, J. M., Ha...