Citation

Valdivia LJ, Alves LP, Rocha NS. J. Health Psychol. 2018; ePub(ePub): 1359105317751619.

Affiliation

Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2018, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1359105317751619

PMID

29322831

Abstract

This study aimed to translate into Brazilian Portuguese and evaluate the main psychometric properties from Spiritual Health and Life-Orientation Measure in a sample of 487 students aged 9-15 years in Southern Brazil. Spiritual Health and Life-Orientation Measure is divided into Ideals and Lived Experience sections and showed high internal consistency reliability (Cronbach's α = 0.94). Comparison of mean values between age showed a tendency to decrease spirituality scores with increasing age. Discriminate validity of mean scores between groups of atheists, "spiritual, but not religious," and religious was significant in all domains (0.026 <  p < 0.001). Spiritual Health and Life-Orientation Measure presents adequate psychometric properties and may contribute to study spirituality in children and adolescents.

Language: en

Keywords

adolescents; children; religiosity; scale; spirituality