Religious and Spiritual Struggles Brief Inventory: Initial Validation and Psychometric Study

• Autores: González-Rivera, Juan, Álvarez-Alatorre, Yazmín
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2021
• Institución: Instituto Peruano de Orientación Psicológica
• Repositorio: Interacciones
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:ojs.ejournals.host:article/188
• Enlace del recurso: https://revistainteracciones.com/index.php/rin/article/view/188
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: luchas religiosas; luchas espirituales; propiedades psicométricas; validez; religious struggles; spiritual struggles; psychometric properties; validity

Background: Religious and spiritual struggles are psychological conflicts associated with a relationship with divinity or religious organizations' particular practices and teachings. These struggles can affect health and well-being, causing emotional distress and pain. Objective: The purpose of this study was to develop and validate a brief measure that examines religious and spiritual struggles (R/E) from the theoretical framework of Exline. Method: This research had an instrumental design. An availability sampling composed of 312 participants residing in Puerto Rico was used. Results: The psychometric analysis confirmed that the scale has a four-dimensional structure (divine struggles, interpersonal struggles, evil struggles, intrapersonal struggles), solid reliability, construct validity, and convergent validity. The 14 items met good discrimination values. Conclusions: These results suggest that the instrument can measure four types of R/E struggles in Puerto Rican adults. Furthermore, this new instrument will allow the advancement of new research on R/E struggles in Puerto Rico and Latin America.