The Royal Free Interview for Spiritual and Religious Beliefs: development and validation of a self-report version

King, Michael; Speck, Peter; Thomas, Angela

doi:10.1017/s0033291701004160

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“…Spiritual Belief Scale (King, Speck, & Thomas, 2001): A measure of belief strength taken from the Royal Free Interview for Spiritual and Religious Beliefs was used to assess the convergent validity of the new scale. The scale is composed of five items on a 10-point scale.…”

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Initial Development of the Iranian Religious Coping Scale

Aflakseir¹,

Coleman²

2011

Journal of Muslim Mental Health

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This study aimed to develop a religious coping measure for Iranians comparable to Pargament's RCOPE scale. A group of university students (N = 185) completed the research measures. The findings of this study demonstrated that the religious coping scale developed for use with Iranians had five factors comprising religious practice, benevolent reappraisal, negative feelings towards God, passive and active religious coping. The study also showed that the different scales of religious coping had good internal consistency and test-retest reliability and construct validity. The results indicated that Iranian students used positive religious coping methods more frequently than negative strategies. The present research also indicated a significant association between the dimensions of positive religious coping, such as religious practice and psychological well-being. The results suggest that this scale may be useful to the researchers interested in religious coping within Islamic context.

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“…Concurrent Validity: Spiritual Strength Scale (King et al, 2001), a five-item scale was used to assess the concurrent validity of the Religious Coping Scale. This scale was designed to measure spiritual coping in patients admitted to the hospital with an acute physical illness.…”

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Initial Development of the Iranian Religious Coping Scale

Aflakseir¹,

Coleman²

2011

Journal of Muslim Mental Health

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“…Although the answer to the self-rated health question is subjective, it is nevertheless a powerful predictor of future morbidity and mortality [27]. In 1995, King et al developed and in 2001 modified, "The Royal Free Interview for Religious and Spiritual Beliefs" in order to evaluate religious and spiritual beliefs in a variety of populations [28,29]. The Greek version of the "Royal Free Interview for Religious and Spiritual Beliefs" proved to have satisfactory psychometric properties for the Greek population [30,31].…”

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A Qualitative Content Analysis of Spirituality and Religiosity amongst Greek COPD Patients

Tzounis¹,

Kerenidi

Daniil

et al. 2016

Religions

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Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is a chronic and common disease throughout the world. Spiritual/religious beliefs are often central to patients with serious illnesses and could serve as a resource for coping with such illnesses. A qualitative methodology was chosen in order to gain a thorough understanding of 75 (male n = 69, 92%, female n = 6, 8%) Greek COPD patients' perceptions of spirituality and religiosity and explore the importance of practicing their beliefs while 25 patients refused to participate in the study. The fewer female participant patients in the study are related to the lower percentage of women suffering from COPD in Greece, which can be further linked to the low smoking habit of women. A total of four patients (5.3%) stated that they had no religious or spiritual understanding of their life; 41 (54.7%) reported a religious belief; eight (10.7%) told of a spiritual belief; and 22 (29.3%) of the participants reported both a religious and a spiritual belief. Faith in the will of God seems to be a particularly strong feature of patients' beliefs. Praying and church attendance were more likely to confirm the importance of practicing their beliefs in their daily lives but COPD seems to prevent patients from regular churchgoing. Religion and spirituality were found to be helpful while patients did not seem to have unrealistic expectations from God when dealing with illness. When asked, participants defined spirituality as "happiness", "love", "our God", "the spirit", and as an act of altruism. Adopting a more holistic perspective for COPD patients in the clinical setting, spirituality and religiosity can offer suggestions for interventions related to their health issues.

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“…This model relied on definitions of spirituality as distinct from (but related to) religiosity (e.g., King, Speck, & Thomas, 2001;Koenig, McCullough, & Larson, 2000;Sinnott, 2002), in order to not limit the construct's universal application and to delineate it from preferred ways of behaving. The related development of a self-report measure, the Spiritual Intelligence Self-Report Inventory (SISRI-24), has revealed psychometric and statistical support for this four-factor model across two large university samples (King, 2008;King & DeCicco, 2009).…”

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Connecting the Spiritual and Emotional Intelligences: Confirming an Intelligence Criterion and Assessing the Role of Empathy

King¹,

Mara²,

DeCicco³

2012

IJTS

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The Royal Free Interview for Spiritual and Religious Beliefs: development and validation of a self-report version

Abstract: This instrument is brief and simple to complete. We would recommend that measures of religious and/or spiritual belief like this be more widely applied in health services research as they evaluate aspects of people's lives that go somewhat further than health status or quality of life.

Cited by 123 publications

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Initial Development of the Iranian Religious Coping Scale

Initial Development of the Iranian Religious Coping Scale

A Qualitative Content Analysis of Spirituality and Religiosity amongst Greek COPD Patients

Connecting the Spiritual and Emotional Intelligences: Confirming an Intelligence Criterion and Assessing the Role of Empathy

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