The Religious Attribution Scale: further validation with an American sample

The Religious Attribution Scale (RAS) was developed recently and validated with a predominantly Muslim Indonesian sample. This study aimed to demonstrate the validity of the RAS with a sample of individuals from the US. Students from two US colleges participated in this research. In addition to the...

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Published in:Mental health, religion & culture
Authors: Garey, Evans (Author) ; Chesser, Svetlana (Author) ; Forbes, Sean Alan (Author) ; Hood, Ralph W., Jr. 1942- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Taylor & Francis [2018]
In: Mental health, religion & culture
Further subjects:B Religious attribution
B Life Satisfaction
B meaning in life
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Summary:The Religious Attribution Scale (RAS) was developed recently and validated with a predominantly Muslim Indonesian sample. This study aimed to demonstrate the validity of the RAS with a sample of individuals from the US. Students from two US colleges participated in this research. In addition to the RAS, other constructs such as meaning in life and life satisfaction were assessed. Reliabilities for all measures were acceptable. Similar to the findings reported for the Indonesian sample, positive religious attribution was associated positively with the presence of meaning in the US sample. However, different relations were observed between positive attribution and search for meaning in life in the US and Indonesian sample. We also found that positive religious attribution had positive correlations with life satisfaction and negative religious attribution factors were negatively related to life satisfaction. Mediational analysis revealed that meaning in life was a potential mediator for religious attribution and life satisfaction.
ISSN:1469-9737
Contains:Enthalten in: Mental health, religion & culture
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1080/13674676.2018.1484432