Assessing and Measuring Spirituality: Confronting Dilemmas of Universal and Particular Evaluative Criteria

By D. Moberg. 2002

366 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Applied Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Health

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In Applied Psychology

1. P. Heintzman
2. O. Alorani
3. M. F. Alradaydeh
4. R. Mannell
5. Larry J. Nelson
6. J. Fisher
7. Carolyn McNamara Barry

In Clinical Psychology

1. Larry J. Nelson
2. Carolyn McNamara Barry
3. P. Heintzman
4. O. Alorani
5. M. F. Alradaydeh
6. R. Mannell
7. J. Fisher
8. H. Astin

In Health

1. Larry J. Nelson
2. P. Heintzman
3. O. Alorani
4. Sahar Davarya
5. Shirene A. Urry
6. M. F. Alradaydeh
7. Adam B. Cohen
8. R. Mannell

Citations in the corpus

• Assessing Students' Spiritual and Religious Qualities (2011, background): “…measurement specialists over the past decade have also attempted to develop measures of “spirituality” and “religiousness,” this critical body of work was reviewed as well (Ellington, 2001; Elkins et al, 1988; Fetzer Institute, 1999; Hill & Hood, 1999; MacDonald, 2000; Moberg, 2002; Neff, 2006).”
• Spiritual Functions of Leisure and Spiritual Well-Being: Coping with Time Pressure (2003, methodology): “…Well-Being Scale (Ellison, 1983, 1991) and the Spiritual Orientation Inventory (Elkins, Hedstrom, Hughes, Leaf, & Saunders, 1988) that measure spiritual well-being as defined at the beginning of this paper (Hawks, 1994) and that have been used in numerous studies (Hawks, 1994, Moberg, 2002).”
• Spiritual well-being, perceived social support, and life satisfaction among university students (2018, background): “Moreover, spiritual well-being has two dimensions; horizontal (existential) dimension refers to the sense of purpose in life, peace and life satisfaction, and vertical (religious) dimension refers to the sense of well-being in relation to God or higher power (Moberg, 2002).”
• Assessing Spirituality: The Relationship Between Spirituality and Mental Health (2013, background): “…limitations in studying spirituality and religiosity are that quantitative measures may not fully assess the subjective nature of spirituality (Moberg, 2002) and that a majority of spiritually related assessment instruments are developed from a Judeo-Christian perspective (Stanard, Sandhu, &…”
• Gender differences in death anxiety and religious orientation among US high school and college students (2007, background): “Constructing a scale that is equally valid and useful in different populations may be impossible, including in the domain of religion and spirituality (Hill & Pargament, 2003; Moberg, 2003).”
• Development and Application of a Spiritual Well-Being Questionnaire Called SHALOM (2010, background): “Moberg has emphasized the need to ‘combine particularistic and universal strategies for clinical assessments and scientific research’ in SWB [7].”
• Religiosity and spirituality during the transition to adulthood (2010, background): “While scholars concur that both terms are multifaceted (Hill et al., 2000; Moberg, 2002), they disagree as to which construct is broader in scope (for a review, see Zinnbauer & Pargament, 2005).”