Spiritual Transcendence Scale / ASPIRES.

STS / ASPIRES

What it measures

Spiritual transcendence as a personality trait: Prayer Fulfilment, Universality, and Connectedness (STS); ASPIRES adds Religious Sentiments (Religious Involvement + Religious Crisis)

Length and format

STS = 24 (Prayer Fulfilment 9, Universality 9, Connectedness 6); ASPIRES = 35 (STS + Religious Sentiments). 5-point agreement (Likert) (self-report questionnaire)

Language versions

Validated across multiple cultures/faiths (e.g. India, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Spanish short form, and others)

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

copyrighted - author permission

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Reference

Piedmont, R. L. (1999). Does spirituality represent the sixth factor of personality? Spiritual transcendence and the FFM. Journal of Personality, 67(6), 985-1013.