Assessment, Statistics, and Research

Counseling 2025 by Geoffrey W Sutton and artspace.ai Assessment name: Cultural Humility Scale Short Form Scale overview: The Cultural Humility Scale Short Form (CHS-SF) has two 3-item subscales (positive/negative cultural humility) developed for clinical practice. In two studies, the authors provided evidence for strong internal consistency, supportive construct and discriminant validity. Authors : Coleman, J. J., Grajzel, K., Dong, Y., Davis, D. E., DeBlaere, C., Hook, J. N., & Owen, J. Response Type: Participants rate the Cultural Humility Scale Short Form on a five-point scale of agreement from strongly disagree to strongly agree. Scale items:    There are three positive and three negative items.     The instructions read:    [Regarding the core aspect(s) of my cultural background, my counselor…]    A positive item: Is considerate    A negative item: Makes assumptions about me. Psychometric properties: See the included tables...

Assessment name: Dominance an IPIP scale Scale overview: T he dominance scale is one of 33 preliminary IPIP scales purported to measure a similar construct on Gough’s California Psychological Inventory. Authors : See the reference link below. Response Type: A suggested response type is to instruct participants to rate items on a degree of how accurate the item describes themselves. Following is a quote between the hyphen lines from the IPIP website. ------ How Accurately Can You Describe Yourself? Describe yourself as you generally are now, not as you wish to be in the future. Describe yourself as you honestly see yourself, in relation to other people you know of the same sex as you are, and roughly your same age. So that you can describe yourself in an honest manner, your responses will be kept in absolute confidence. Indicate for each statement whether it is 1. Very Inaccurate, 2. Moderately Inaccurate, 3. Neither Accurate Nor Inaccurate, 4. Moderately Accurate, or 5. Very Accurate a...

Christian-Secular Culture 2025 Assessment name: Cultural Christian: A Qualitative Questionnaire (CCQC) Scale overview: The Cultural Christian: A Qualitative Questionnaire (CCQC) consists of a set of questions designed to identify how closely an interviewee aligns with the characteristics of a cultural Christian, as opposed to someone who actively adheres to the core tenets of Christianity and participates in a recognized Christian denomination or group. Author : Geoffrey W. Sutton Response Type: Open-ended questions. SCALE ITEMS The following questions can aid in interviews and research on Christian types. Clinicians and researchers can adjust these questions based on their needs. The answers can help differentiate between cultural Christians and those deeply committed to core Christian beliefs and active in a Christian community. [Read more about Cultural Christianity at https://suttonpsychology.blogspot.com/2025/01/cultural-christian-psychology-of.html ] QUESTIONS 1. What Christian...

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...

  Contemplating a Christian Worldview 2024 by Geoffrey W. Sutton & Designer Assessment name: Christian Social Values Index (CSVI) Scale overview: The Christian Social Values Index (CSVI) is a 13-item self-report measure of the degree to which Christians agree with common sociomoral beliefs. Authors: Geoffrey W. Sutton, Christine Arnzen, Heather L. Kelly Response Type: A 5-point rating of agreement where 1 = strongly disagree and 5 = strongly agree. Scale items 1. All forms of birth control are sinful. 2. Birth control methods are acceptable if they do not cause an abortion. 3. Abortion is always sinful. 4. Premarital sex is always sinful. 5. Cohabitation is always sinful. 6. marriage is between one man and one woman. 7. Same-sex marriage is sinful. 8. Divorce is sinful. 9. Sexual orientation is a choice. 10. In a Christian marriage, a man and a woman submit to each other but the man is always the head of the marriage. 11. Women have a vital role ...

  American Church 2024 by Geoffrey W. Sutton & Designer Assessment name: Worldview Beliefs Scale overview: The Worldview Beliefs is a measure of 10 beliefs commonly held by American Christians. Authors: Aaron T. McLaughlin and others (see reference below) Response Type: Five-point rating scale ranging from less to more conservative with 3 = a neutral rating. Scale items: There are 10 beliefs in the scale. The topics are as follows:   Abortion   Acceptable marriage partners   Acceptable sex   Creation-evolution   Birth control   Religious values and politics   Alcohol consumption   Women as pastors/ religious teachers   Psychometric properties The authors provide means and standard deviations in Table 1. Internal consistency (Cronbach’s alpha) = .79. Comments The measure along with other items presented in the article offer a perspective on several components of a Christian worldview. The differe...