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Measuring Religiousness and Spirituality: Issues, Existing Measures, and the Implications for Education and Wellbeing

2009; Springer Nature (Netherlands); Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/978-1-4020-9018-9_3

1874-0057

Peter C. Hill, Lauren E. Maltby,

Religion and Society Interactions

This chapter consists of three major parts. The first part discusses general issues related to measurement in the psychology of religion. The second part reviews major measures of religiousness and spirituality by general religious and spiritual domain, concentrating on those areas and measures that have been (or might be) associated with educational processes and outcomes as well as general wellbeing. Only those measures judged to meet adequately acceptable standards for research purposes on the following criteria are discussed: theoretical basis, representative sampling and generalization, reliability, andvalidity. The final section talks about new developments in the measurement of religion and spirituality and alternatives to self-report or paper-and-pencil measures and offers guidance in choosing a measure for research in education and wellbeing.