The daily spiritual experience scale: development, theoretical description, reliability, exploratory factor analysis, and preliminary construct validity using health-related data

By L. Underwood, Jeanne A. Teresi. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 2002

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Health, Social Psychology

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Concerns About Measuring “Spirituality” in Research (2008, positive): “Daily Spiritual Experiences Scale (DES): The DES is increasingly being used as a measure of spirituality in studies of mental and physical health (Underwood and Teresi, 2002).”
Spirituality, Religiousness, and Happiness in Children Aged 8–12 Years (2010, methodology): “The current study used a multidimensional approach to investigate the relation between spirituality and happiness as recommended by several researchers (Emmons 2006; Fisher et al. 2000; Houskamp et al. 2004; Idler et al. 2003; Underwood and Teresi 2002 ).”
The relationship of religious coping and spirituality to adjustment and psychological distress in urban early adolescents (2009, methodology): “Scores on the DSES ranged from 27 to 90, with a mean of 61.79 (SD¼ 16.78).”
Social Support and Spirituality as Culturally Relevant Factors in Coping Among African American Women Survivors of Partner Abuse (2004, background): “Spirituality, another type of engaged coping, refers to the perception of and interaction with the transcendent and a sense of inner strength in daily life (Underwood & Teresi, 2002).”
Daily Spiritual Experiences and Psychological Well-being Among US Adults (2008, methodology): “The goal of this study has been to augment our knowledge of a new, and increasingly popular, measure of spirituality, the Daily Spiritual Experiences Scale (DSES; Underwood 2006; Underwood and Teresi 2002) by: (a) examining its associations with multiple psychosocial outcomes, as well as (b) explo”
Gods or rituals? Relational faith, spiritual discontent, and religious practices as predictors of hope and optimism (2008, methodology): “Developed by Underwood and Teresi (2002), the 6-item DSES short form was included in the BMMRS and was used in this study to capture the sense of spiritual connection.”
Is youth spiritual development a universal developmental process? An international exploration (2012, methodology): “These included well-known measures such as Underwood’s Daily Spiritual Experiences Scale (Underwood & Teresi, 2002), Paloutzian and Ellison’s Spiritual Well-Being Scale (Ellison, 1983), the Fetzer Institute (1999) series of brief measures, Allport and Ross’s Religious Orientation Scale (Trimble,…”
Compassionate love for close others and humanity (2005, methodology): “In addition, we included the 16-item Daily Spiritual Experience scale (see Underwood & Teresi, 2002).”
Exploring the Dimensionality of “Religiosity” and “Spirituality” in the Fetzer Multidimensional Measure (2006, methodology): “As the Fetzer multidimensional measure has been developed to be useful in studying relationships between religiosity/spirituality and health and well-being dimensions, the goal here has been to capitalize upon the availability of national data on the measure provided by the 1998 GSS to go beyond pre”
The Multidimensional Existential Meaning Scale: A tripartite approach to measuring meaning in life (2017, background): “This subscale assesses an individual’s ‘perception of the transcendent (God, the divine) in daily life and his or her perception of his or her interaction with or involvement of the transcendent in life’ (Underwood & Teresi, 2002, p. 23).”
Individual spirituality, workplace spirituality and work attitudes (2009, background): “Evidence on the reliability and validity of the scale has also been provided, and its suitability for use in other cultures has been indicated by Underwood and Teresi (2002)”
Religiosity and Spirituality as Resiliency Resources: Moderation, Mediation, or Moderated Mediation? (2014, background): “Underwood and Teresi (2002) reported test-retest reliability = .”
Are meaning and purpose distinct? An examination of correlates and predictors (2013, methodology): “Studies have shown good reliability and validity data for the scale (e.g. Underwood & Teresi, 2002).”