TY  - GEN
AU  - Büssing,Arndt
TI  - Measures of Spirituality/Religiosity—Description of Concepts and Validation of Instruments
SN  - books978-3-03897-759-9
PY  - 2019///
PB  - MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
KW  - religious trust
KW  - n/a
KW  - healthy persons
KW  - religion and health
KW  - bereavement
KW  - psychometric properties
KW  - meaning making
KW  - Katz-Francis Scale of Attitude toward Judaism
KW  - quantitative measure
KW  - measures
KW  - religiosity
KW  - children
KW  - medical ethics
KW  - life satisfaction
KW  - communication
KW  - validation
KW  - struggle
KW  - needs
KW  - well-being
KW  - SHALOM
KW  - spirituality
KW  - DUREL
KW  - anxiety
KW  - spiritual crisis
KW  - latent
KW  - Reliance on God’s help
KW  - physician values
KW  - Judaism
KW  - quality of life
KW  - attitude
KW  - distress
KW  - questionnaire
KW  - faith
KW  - affective religiosity
KW  - measurement
KW  - spiritual struggle
KW  - Buddhism
KW  - spiritual well-being
KW  - psychology
KW  - China
KW  - complicated grief
KW  - God
KW  - complicated spiritual grief
KW  - bifactor
KW  - RCI-10
KW  - religion
KW  - spiritual care
KW  - assess
KW  - chronic illness
KW  - confirmatory factor analysis
KW  - cancer
KW  - depression
KW  - Australia
N1  - Open Access
N2  - Why do we need more questionnaires to measure aspects of spirituality/religiosity when we already have so many well-tried instruments in use? One answer is that research in this field is growing and that new research questions continuously do arise. Several of these new questions cannot be easily answered with the instruments designed for previous questions. The field is expanding and, consequently, the research topics. Meanwhile several multidimensional instruments were developed which cover existential, prosocial, religious and non-religious forms of spirituality, hope, peace and trust—and several more. The ‘disadvantage’ of these instruments is the fact that some are conceptually broad and often rather unspecific, but they might be suited quite well for culturally and spiritually diverse populations when the intention is to compare such diverse groups. This is the reason why more research on new instruments is needed as can be found in this Special Issue, and to stimulate a critical debate about their pros and cons
UR  - https://mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/1261
UR  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/52917
ER  -