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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