Spirituality as a scientific construct: testing its universality across cultures and languages.

Using data obtained from 4004 participants across eight countries (Canada, India, Japan, Korea, Poland, Slovakia, Uganda, and the U.S.), the factorial reliability, validity and structural/measurement invariance of a 30-item version of Expressions of Spirituality Inventory (ESI-R) was evaluated. The...

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Main Authors: Douglas A MacDonald, Harris L Friedman, Jacek Brewczynski, Daniel Holland, Kiran Kumar K Salagame, K Krishna Mohan, Zuzana Ondriasova Gubrij, Hye Wook Cheong
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0117701