Religions | |
Measuring Religiosity/Spirituality: Theoretical Differentiations and Categorization of Instruments | |
Christian Zwingmann2  Constantin Klein1  | |
[1] Center for the Interdisciplinary Research on Religion and Society (CIRRuS), Faculty for History, Philosophy, and Theology, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany;E-Mail:;The Protestant University of Applied Sciences Rhineland-Westphalia-Lippe, Immanuel-Kant-Str.18-20, D-44803 Bochum, Germany | |
关键词: religiosity; spirituality; questionnaires; categorization; | |
DOI : 10.3390/rel2030345 | |
来源: mdpi | |
【 摘 要 】
There is a multitude of instruments for measuring religiosity/spirituality. Many of these questionnaires are used or even were developed in the context of studies about the connection between religiosity/spirituality and health. Thus, it seems crucial to note that measures can focus on quite different components along a hypothetical path between stressors and health. We present an instructive model which helps to identify these different components and allows the categorization of instruments of religiosity/spirituality according to their primary measurement intention: intensity/centrality, resources, needs, coping, and quality of life/well-being. Furthermore, we point out possibilities as to how religiosity and spirituality can be differentiated. We argue that the distinction between religiosity and spirituality is important in countries with a more secular background where a growing number of people identify themselves as “spiritual, but not religious”.
【 授权许可】
CC BY
© 2011 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
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