Spiritual Transcendence Index.
STI
- What it measures
- Subjective experience of transcendent spirituality - a sense of meaning, purpose, and connection with a transcendent dimension, measured independently of religious affiliation
- Length and format
- 8 (STI). 6-point agreement (Likert) (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- Adapted into a few languages in psychology-of-religion/well-being 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
- Seidlitz, L., et al. (2002). Development of the Spiritual Transcendence Index. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 41(3), 439-453.
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