Quest Religious Orientation Scale.
Quest
- What it measures
- Quest orientation to religion: open-ended engagement with existential questions, viewing doubt as positive, and openness to change - a third orientation beyond Intrinsic/Extrinsic
- Length and format
- 12 (4 items each for: readiness to face existential questions, self-criticism/positive doubt, openness to change). 9-point agreement (Likert) (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- Adapted into several languages (e.g. Central-European, Spanish, and others) 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
- Batson, C. D., & Schoenrade, P. A. (1991). Measuring religion as quest. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 30(4), 416-447.
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