Measures of Religiosity
Measures of Religiosity by Peter C. Hill, Ralph W. Hood Jr.
English | 1999 | ISBN: 089135106X | 531 Pages | PDF | 17.7 MB
English | 1999 | ISBN: 089135106X | 531 Pages | PDF | 17.7 MB
The idea for this book can be traced back to a fall 1986 conference in upstate New York sponsored by the Eastern Region of the Christian Association for Psychological Studies. Over coffee one evening at that conference, seven or eight researchers were lamenting the fact that so much effort in the psychology of religion is being spent in constructing new measures when others already exist, probably because many earlier measures have been lost over the years in the research shuffle. During that discussion the researchers expressed appreciation for the 1973 volume Measures of Social Psychological Attitudes, authored by John Robinson and Phillip Shaver and published by the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. That book is a compendium of reviews of attitudinal scales developed by that time on such social-psychological constructs as life satisfaction, values, locus of control, and authoritarianism. One of the eleven chapters in Robinson and Shaver’s book reviews seventeen measures of religious attitudes.