Brief Multidimensional Measure of Religiousness/Spirituality.
BMMRS
- What it measures
- Multiple domains of religiousness/spirituality relevant to health: daily spiritual experiences, values/beliefs, forgiveness, private religious practices, religious/spiritual coping, religious support, religious/spiritual history, commitment, organisational religiousness, and overall self-ranking
- Length and format
- 38 (full BMMRS); shorter derived subsets. mixed frequency + agreement formats across domains (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- Translated into multiple languages (e.g. Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, and others) in health-research contexts
- Normative data
- No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.
- Licence
- public-domain / open
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- Reference
- Fetzer Institute/NIA Working Group (1999). Multidimensional Measurement of Religiousness/Spirituality for Use in Health Research. Idler, E. L., et al. (2003), Research on Aging, 25(4), 327-365.
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