Religious and Spiritual Struggles Brief Inventory: Initial Validation and Psychometric Study
Background: Religious and spiritual struggles are psychological conflicts associated with a relationship with divinity or religious organizations' particular practices and teachings. These struggles can affect health and well-being, causing emotional distress and pain. Objective: The purpose of...
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| author | Juan González-Rivera Yazmín Álvarez-Alatorre |
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| description | Background: Religious and spiritual struggles are psychological conflicts associated with a relationship with divinity or religious organizations' particular practices and teachings. These struggles can affect health and well-being, causing emotional distress and pain. Objective: The purpose of this study was to develop and validate a brief measure that examines religious and spiritual struggles (R/E) from the theoretical framework of Exline. Method: This research had an instrumental design. An availability sampling composed of 312 participants residing in Puerto Rico was used. Results: The psychometric analysis confirmed that the scale has a four-dimensional structure (divine struggles, interpersonal struggles, evil struggles, intrapersonal struggles), solid reliability, construct validity, and convergent validity. The 14 items met good discrimination values. Conclusions: These results suggest that the instrument can measure four types of R/E struggles in Puerto Rican adults. Furthermore, this new instrument will allow the advancement of new research on R/E struggles in Puerto Rico and Latin America. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-45d88297d1d046f4bcd478dcdaca8a392025-02-03T02:01:58ZengInstituto Peruano de Orientación Psicológica – IPOPSInteracciones2411-59402413-44652021-07-017e18810.24016/2021.v7.188Religious and Spiritual Struggles Brief Inventory: Initial Validation and Psychometric StudyJuan González-Rivera0https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0622-8308Yazmín Álvarez-Alatorre1https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8989-1679Ponce Health Sciences University, Centro Universitario de San Juan, Ponce, Puerto Rico.Ponce Health Sciences University, Centro Universitario de San Juan, Ponce, Puerto Rico.Background: Religious and spiritual struggles are psychological conflicts associated with a relationship with divinity or religious organizations' particular practices and teachings. These struggles can affect health and well-being, causing emotional distress and pain. Objective: The purpose of this study was to develop and validate a brief measure that examines religious and spiritual struggles (R/E) from the theoretical framework of Exline. Method: This research had an instrumental design. An availability sampling composed of 312 participants residing in Puerto Rico was used. Results: The psychometric analysis confirmed that the scale has a four-dimensional structure (divine struggles, interpersonal struggles, evil struggles, intrapersonal struggles), solid reliability, construct validity, and convergent validity. The 14 items met good discrimination values. Conclusions: These results suggest that the instrument can measure four types of R/E struggles in Puerto Rican adults. Furthermore, this new instrument will allow the advancement of new research on R/E struggles in Puerto Rico and Latin America.https://ojs.revistainteracciones.com/index.php/rin/article/view/188religious strugglesspiritual strugglespsychometric propertiesvalidity |
| spellingShingle | Juan González-Rivera Yazmín Álvarez-Alatorre Religious and Spiritual Struggles Brief Inventory: Initial Validation and Psychometric Study Interacciones religious struggles spiritual struggles psychometric properties validity |
| title | Religious and Spiritual Struggles Brief Inventory: Initial Validation and Psychometric Study |
| title_full | Religious and Spiritual Struggles Brief Inventory: Initial Validation and Psychometric Study |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Religious and Spiritual Struggles Brief Inventory: Initial Validation and Psychometric Study |
| title_short | Religious and Spiritual Struggles Brief Inventory: Initial Validation and Psychometric Study |
| title_sort | religious and spiritual struggles brief inventory initial validation and psychometric study |
| topic | religious struggles spiritual struggles psychometric properties validity |
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