Mysticism Scale (Hood M-Scale).

M-Scale

What it measures

Reported mystical experience along Stace's common-core dimensions - introvertive mysticism, extrovertive mysticism, and religious/noetic interpretation

Length and format

32 (M-Scale); short forms of 8-16 items in use. 5-pt Likert (agreement), some items reverse-keyed (self-report questionnaire)

Language versions

15+ langs approx incl. FA (Iranian validation is a landmark cross-cultural study), ES, PT, DE, PL, ZH, JA, HE, TR

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

Hood RW. The construction and preliminary validation of a measure of reported mystical experience. J Sci Study Relig. 1975;14(1):29-41.