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Values, attitudes, ideology and morality

Intrinsic Religious Motivation Scale (Hoge).

IRMS / Hoge

What it measures
Intrinsic religious motivation - the extent to which religion is the master motive that integrates and directs one's life (a refinement of Allport's intrinsic orientation)
Length and format
10 (Hoge 1972). 5-point agreement (Likert); some items reverse-keyed (self-report questionnaire)
Language versions
Translated into several languages in psychology-of-religion research
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
open with attribution

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Reference
Hoge, D. R. (1972). A validated intrinsic religious motivation scale. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 11(4), 369-376.

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