Development of the Spiritual Transcendence Index

摘要: In response to calls from the scientific community for improved conceptualizations and measures of spirituality, we describe concept “spiritual transcendence” development Spiritual Transcendence Index (STI). transcendence refers a perceived experience sacred that affects one’sself–perception, feelings, goals, ability transcend one’sdifficulties. The STI is an eight–item measure this construct developed refined based on rational considerations, input three focus groups religious leaders, reciprocal process empirically testing item pool revising it across six successive surveys. final scale, together with related constructs, was tested in 220 randomly selected residents. Although further study scale needed, demonstrated high consistency validity several samples these initial exploratory studies.