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Interacciones

versión impresa ISSN 2411-5940versión On-line ISSN 2413-4465

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GONZALEZ-RIVERA, Juan Aníbal  y  ALVAREZ-ALATORRE, Yazmín. Religious and spiritual struggles brief inventory: Initial validation and psychometric study. Interacciones [online]. 2021, vol.7, pp.e188-. ISSN 2411-5940.  http://dx.doi.org/10.24016/2021.v7.188.

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.

Palabras clave : religious struggles; spiritual struggles; psychometric properties; validity..

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