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Introducing the Junior Spiritual Health Scale (JSHS) : assessing the impact of religious affect on spiritual health among 8- to 11-year-old students
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Francis, Leslie J., Lankshear, David W. and Eccles, Emma L. (2021) Introducing the Junior Spiritual Health Scale (JSHS) : assessing the impact of religious affect on spiritual health among 8- to 11-year-old students. International Journal of Children's Spirituality, 26 (4). pp. 199-213. doi:10.1080/1364436x.2021.1968801 ISSN 1469-8455.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/1364436X.2021.1968801
Abstract
This study describes the developing and testing of a measure of spiritual health accessible to 8- to 11-year-old students that is consistent with the four-domain model as operationalised by Fisher’s family of measures, but avoids explicit religious or theistic content. Data generated by 4,803 students in Wales confirm the rotated four-factor structure of the new 12-item measure and also the coherence of employing the total scale score as a unidimensional measure of global spiritual health (α = .90). After taking personal factors and psychological factors into account, regression analysis demonstrated that religious affect contributed additional power to predicting higher spiritual health scores on this new measure that was not itself contaminated by explicit religious or theistic content. This instrument is commended as providing a sound foundation for assessing the spiritual health of primary school students within a variety of religious and non-religious schools.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BL Religion B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BV Practical Theology |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Educational Development, Appraisal and Research (CEDAR) Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Education Studies (2013- ) |
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SWORD Depositor: | Library Publications Router | ||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | School children -- Religious life -- Wales, Spiritual life , Psychology, Religious | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | International Journal of Children's Spirituality | ||||||
Publisher: | Informa UK Limited | ||||||
ISSN: | 1469-8455 | ||||||
Official Date: | 20 August 2021 | ||||||
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Volume: | 26 | ||||||
Number: | 4 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 199-213 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1080/1364436x.2021.1968801 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 12 November 2021 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 25 May 2022 |
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