TY  - JOUR
AB  - This article presents the Religious Schema Scale (RSS). Its conceptual background is the model of religious styles. After a conceptual discussion of the relation  between religious styles and religious schemata, the steps of scale construction are reported. Based on 822 responses from research participants in the United States and Germany to a preliminary 78-item version, we used construct-oriented iterative and factor-analytic procedures for reducing the RSS to a 15-item version that consists of three 5-item subscales with acceptable reliabilities. Confirmatory factor analysis indicates that the RSS has a robust 3-factor structure, which is cross-culturally valid in both the United States and Germany. We report  correlations of the RSS with the Big Five, Psychological Well-Being, Religious Fundamentalism, and Right-Wing  Authoritarianism. We also present predictive characteristics of the RSS in regard to Fowler’s stages of faith. Finally, we report results on the incremental validity of the RSS.
DA  - 2010
DO  - 10.1080/10508619.2010.481223
KW  - measure of religiosity
KW  - religion
KW  - religious style
KW  - religious schema
LA  - eng
IS  - 3
M2  - 151
PY  - 2010
SN  - 1050-8619
SP  - 151-172
T2  - International Journal for the Psychology of Religion
TI  - The Religious Schema Scale: Construction and Initial Validation of a Quantitative Measure for Religious Styles
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0070-pub-17950340
Y2  - 2024-11-22T03:59:41
ER  -