Dimensions of Religion/Spirituality and Relevance to Health Research
This study aimed to identify unique religion/ spirituality (R/S) factors that account for variation in R/S measures of interest to health research. A 127-item questionnaire that included R/S items from classic, personality, clinical, and recent R/S-health research was administered to California stat...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2007
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The international journal for the psychology of religion
Year: 2007, Volume: 17, Issue: 4, Pages: 265-288 |
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| Summary: | This study aimed to identify unique religion/ spirituality (R/S) factors that account for variation in R/S measures of interest to health research. A 127-item questionnaire that included R/S items from classic, personality, clinical, and recent R/S-health research was administered to California state college students (n = 846) and to members of two California churches (n = 425). A seven-factor solution emerged that explained 61.5% of total variance that replicated across independent samples and that was highly stable across diverse subgroups. A large primary factor (28% of explained variance) included a number of key R/S measures assessing R/S motivation, devotion, and coping. Six other factors, each accounting for 6% to 9%, supported the discriminant validity of social support, existential well-being, extrinsic motivation, religious proscription, and two personality factors (spiritual and self transcendence). The link between current results and literature on health is discussed in terms of current causal models. |
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| ISSN: | 1532-7582 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The international journal for the psychology of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/10508610701572770 |