The Assessment of Spirituality and Religious Sentiments (ASPIRES) Scale: Examining a Spiritual Transcendence Nomological Net in Polish Context

The Assessment of Spirituality and Religious Sentiments (ASPIRES) scale assesses religiousness and spirituality (R/S) as universal psychological constructs. The current study presents replication of spirituality assessment as proposed by the ASPIRES model and examination of relationships among relig...

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Published in:Psychology of religion and spirituality 2021-02, Vol.13 (1), p.36-45
Main Authors: Piotrowski, Jarosław P., Żemojtel-Piotrowska, Magdalena, Piedmont, Ralph L., Baran, Tomasz
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Communion
Convergence
Distinctiveness
Experimental Replication
Factor Structure
Female
Foreign Language Translation
Human
Incremental Validity
Male
Materialism
Psychological assessment
Psychology of religion
Reliability
Religion
Religiosity
Spirituality
Statistical Samples
Test Construction
Test Reliability
Test Validity
Transcendence
Transpersonal Psychology
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Summary:The Assessment of Spirituality and Religious Sentiments (ASPIRES) scale assesses religiousness and spirituality (R/S) as universal psychological constructs. The current study presents replication of spirituality assessment as proposed by the ASPIRES model and examination of relationships among religiousness, spirituality, agency, communion and materialism in the Polish cultural context. Using multiple samples and methods (total N = 1,797), the factor structure, reliability, cross-observer convergence, metric equivalence, and incremental validity of the ASPIRES scales over personality were examined. The results confirmed the psychometric, interpretive, and predictive utility of the ASPIRES in non-Western, culturally homogenous cultural context. Moreover, the pattern of correlations among religiosity, spirituality, agency, communion, and materialism indicated distinctiveness between religiosity and spirituality. The value of a universal measure of R/S constructs for the psychology of religion was discussed.
ISSN:1941-1022
1943-1562
DOI:10.1037/rel0000273