Measures of Spirituality/Religiosity (2018)

• Main Author: Büssing, Arndt (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2019
• Subjects: Religion & beliefs; clinical setting; n/a; healthy persons; religious beliefs; Franciscan; psychometric properties; evaluation; religiosity; spiritual needs; factorial structure; Brazil; struggles; validation; self-report measure of religion; Validation; active duty military; Filipino students; patients; exploratory factor analysis; SHALOM; spirituality; attachment theory; Islam; chronic disease; internal consistency; Attachment to God Inventory; spiritual jihad; Catholics; transcultural adaptation; questionnaire; post-traumatic stress disorder; veterans; elderly; internal conflict; engagement frequency; measurement; styles of attachment; spiritual well-being; Christian religious practices; Lithuania; moral injury; scoping review; Muslims; structural equation modeling; awe; IAD-Br; gratitude; translation; people living with HIV; growth; attitudes towards religion
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

The interest in the topic of spirituality as a more or less independent dimension of quality of life is continuously growing, and research questions are beginning to change as the field of religiosity changes, becoming more diverse and pluralistic. Addressing new topics in health research also relies on standardized questionnaires. The number of instruments intended to measure specific aspects of spirituality is growing, and it is particularly difficult to evaluate the new instruments. This Special Issue will focus on some of the established instruments (updating them to different languages and cultures), but will also describe the features and intentions of newly-developed instruments, which may potentially be used in larger studies to develop knowledge relevant to spiritual care and practice. This Special Issue will serve as a resource on the instruments used to study the wide range of organized religiosity, the individual experience of the divine, and an open approach in the search for meaning and purpose in life.