The Development and Preliminary Validation of the Belief in Divine Intervention Scale
The primary purpose of the present study was to create and validate a scale assessing the extent to which people believe in divine intervention. A six-item Belief in Divine Intervention Scale (BDIS) was one of six scales administered to 204 students at a community college and a Christian liberal art...
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Sprache: | Englisch |
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Sage Publishing
1995
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Journal of psychology and theology
Jahr: 1995, Band: 23, Heft: 1, Seiten: 37-44 |
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Zusammenfassung: | The primary purpose of the present study was to create and validate a scale assessing the extent to which people believe in divine intervention. A six-item Belief in Divine Intervention Scale (BDIS) was one of six scales administered to 204 students at a community college and a Christian liberal arts college. The BDIS displayed a high level of internal consistency (coefficient alpha = .910), and a principal components analysis strongly supported its unidimensionality. There was a large primary component with high loadings of all items on the primary component (.811 - .845). BDIS scores were significantly correlated to self-reported importance of religion and were significantly higher among students from the Christian college. BDIS scores were not significantly related to locus of control measures or belief in a just world. Overall, the BDIS revealed good psychometric properties and provides a short, easily administered measure of belief in divine intervention. |
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ISSN: | 2328-1162 |
Enthält: | Enthalten in: Journal of psychology and theology
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/009164719502300104 |