Assessment of

Spirituality and
Meaning in Research
and Clinical Settings
AmericanCounselingAssociation
CharlotteNC,March21,2009

Mark E. Young, University of Central Florida

Leila Roach, Stetson University

W. Bryce Hagedorn, University of Central Florida

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Packet Contents
The Ultimate Meaning Technique

Assessment Techniques
Measures of Meaning

Brief Spiritual Assessment

Spiritual History

Quantitative Measures of Spirituality

Qualitative Measures of Spirituality

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Spiritual Lifemap

11

Bibliography

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The Ultimate Meanings Technique

from Mark E. Young (2009) Learning the Art of Helping
Leontiv (2007) devised a creative technique for identifying important meaning issues. The
technique consists of writing down your answer to a question with the stem, Why do people. . .
and then following up with more why questions to the answers. For example, Why do people
watch TV, smoke cigarettes, get married, buy a house etc.) Below is an example using the
question, Why do people travel?
Answer: To see new things.
Question: Why see new things?
Answer: Because you can see different ways of doing things
Question: Why see other ways of doing things?
Answer: Because then you will be able to think of new ideas.
Question, Why think of new ideas?
Answer: So that you can create new products a work and get an edge on other people.
This example is truncated but perhaps you can see that this person may value creativity,
success at work and competing with others. Of course, you would need a longer series of
questions and different topics to get a clearer insight. If you would like to try the Ultimate
Meanings Technique for yourself, respond to the following question: Why do people work?
Write down your answer. Then ask a series of why questions based on your responses. Try to
put down 20 or so answers, then look through your answers and see if you can spot some key
values and meanings for yourself.

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Selected Instruments for the Measurement of Meaning in Life

Instrument
Personal Views
Survey
(PVS)
Sources of
Meaning Profile
(SMP)
Pargaments
Meaning Scale
(PMS)

Construct
Measured
Hardiness

Sources and
strength of personal
meaning in ones
life
Meaning that
spirituality provides
in ones life

Sense of
Coherence Scale
(SOC)

Sense of
Coherence

Purpose In Life
(PIL)

Overall meaning
and purpose in life.

Life Regard
Index
(LRI)

Positive life regard,

a synonym for
personal meaning
in life

Personal
Meaning Profile
(PMP)

Life Purpose
Questionnaire
(LPQ)
Seeking of
Noetic Goals
(SONG)
Meaning in
Suffering Test
(MIST)

Measures specific
domains of
meaning as well as
magnitude, breadth
and balance.

Overall meaning
and purpose in life
similar to the PIL.
Overall meaning
and purpose in life
Multidimensional

Brief Description of
the Instrument

Citation

50-item revised
3 subscales, Challenge,
Commitment, Control
16 item scale which has
been used with older
adults

Hardiness Institute
(1985).

20-item scale that does

not measure spirituality
but the degree that
religion and spiritual
practice add meaning.
13-items on three
subscales;
Comprehensibility,
Manageability and
Meaningfulness
20 items. It is an attitude
scale that measures the
degree to which a
person feels meaning
and purpose in life
includes existential
elements.
28 items. Two
subscales: Framework
(the person has a
meaningful perspective_
and Fulfillment (Am I
fulfilling my life goals?).
57 items measuring
seven factors:
Achievement striving,
relationship, intimacy
religion, selftranscendence, selfacceptance, fair
treatment

Pargament (1999).

A 20 item test.
Agree/disagree format
allowing geriatric and
brain injured to respond.
20 Likert items.

Hablas & Hutzell, 1982

A 29-item scale with

three subscales and one
overall score.

Starck, 1985

Reker & Wong (1988).

Antonovsky & Sagy

(1986).

Crumbaugh & Maholick

(1964).

Battista & Almond

(1973).
Debats (1998).

Wong (1998).

Crumbaugh, 1977

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Life Attitude
Profile- Revised
(LAP-R)

Multidimensional

48 items, six subscales

and two composite
scores.

Reker, 1992

The Brief Spiritual Assessment

from Hodge (2005) Spiritual Assessment in Marital and Family Therapy

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The Spiritual History

from Hodge (2005) Spiritual Assessment in Marital and Family Therapy

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Selective Instruments for the Quantitative Measure of Spirituality and Religion

Instrument

Construct
Measured

Human Spirituality
Scale (HSS)

Global measure of
spirituality

Spiritual Assessment
Inventory (SAI)

Spiritual maturity from

a Judeo-Christian
perspective

Index of Core Spiritual

Experiences
(INSPIRIT)

Two core elements of

spirituality;
experience(s) that
convince an individual
God exists, and a
perception that God
dwells in the individual
Religious Well-Being
(RWB) as it relates to
concepts of God, and
Existential Well-Being
(EWB) as it relates to
a sense of purpose
and satisfaction in life
Quality of life, stress,
and coping with lifethreatening illness by
examining 2 factors:
beliefs and practices;
and social support
Two subscales: sense
of meaning and
peace; and role of
faith in illness.
Produces a total score
for spiritual well-being.
Personal Spiritual
Experience, Spiritual
Well-being, Sense of
Harmony, and
Personal
Helplessness
Unifying
Interconnectedness,
Purpose and Meaning
in Life, Innerness or
Inner Resources, and
Transcendence
Emotional, intimacy,
and faith aspects of
spiritual support

Spiritual Well-Being
Scale (SWBS)

Systems of Belief
Inventory
(SBI-15R)

The Functional
Assessment of
Chronic Illness
Therapy-Spiritual
Well-Being Scale
(FACIT-Sp)
Spiritual Health
Inventory (SHI)

Spirituality
Assessment Scale
(SAS)

Spiritual Support
Scale

Brief Description
of the Instrument

Citation

20 item scale rated

from 1 (never, almost
never) to 5
(constantly, almost
constantly)
43 item inventory
scored on a 5-point
scale of 1(not true of
me) through 5 (true of
me)
On-line, 7 item
instrument (item 7 has
13 parts)

Wheat (1991)

20-item scale with 6

responses ranging
from strongly disagree
to strongly agree

Ellison (1983)

15-item measure
scored on a 4-point
likert scale ranging
from 0 (strongly
disagree) to 3
(strongly agree)
12-item measure
scored on a 5-point
likert scale ranging
from 0 (not at all) to 4
(very much)

Holland, Kash,
Passik, Gronert,
Sison, Lederberg,
Russak, Baider, & Fox
(1998)

18 item scale with 6

responses ranging
from strongly disagree
to strongly agree

Veach & Chappel

(1992)

28 statements rated
from 1 (strongly
disagree) to 6
(strongly agree)

Howden (1992)

3-items rated on a 5point scale.

Maton (1989)

Young, Roach, & Hagedorn (ACA, 2009)

Hall &Edwards (1996)

Kass, Friedman,
Lesserman,
Zuttermeister, &
Benson (1991)

Peterman, Fitchett,
Brady, Pharm, & Cella
(2002)

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Religious Orientation
Inventory (ROI)

Age Universal I-E

Quest (Interactional)
Scale

Christian Religious
Internalization Scale
(CRIS)

Religious Coping
Scale (RCOPE)

Religious Support
Measure

Spiritual History Scale

(SHS-4)

Spirituality Scale (SS)

Orientation toward
religion on both an
intrinsic and extrinsic
dimension
Adapted from Allport
and Rosss Religious
Orientation Scale that
can be used with
children and
adolescents
Adds 3rd dimension to
religious orientation:
quest (degree to
which ones religion
involves open-ended,
responsive dialogue
to existential
questions raised by
contradictions and
tragedies in life)
Degree of selfdetermination for
Christian beliefs and
practices (could be
adapted for other
religions)
Methods of coping
with life situations
based on a JudeoChristian perspective

Relationships
between perceived
religious support and
life satisfaction and
religious attendance
Spiritual and religious
practices and
attributions over the
lifespan
spirituality from an
Afro-cultural
perspective

20-item measure

Allport & Ross (1967)

Gorsuch and Venable

(1983)

9- item scale version

Batson (1976)

6-item scale version

Batson & Ventis

(1982)

12-item scale version

Batson & Schoenrade

(1991)

Each rated on a 9point scale from 1

(strongly disagree) to
9 (strongly agree)
12-item measure
rated on a 4-point
scale from not at all
true to very true

105 item scale

consists of 21
subscales with 5
items each, that asks
respondents to rate
the degree to which
various types of
religious coping were
involved in dealing
with a negative life
event on a 4-point
likert scale from not at
all to a great deal
Assesses three
factors: God support,
congregational
support, and church
leader support
23 item, four
dimensional
retrospective
summary
20 item measure
rated on a 6 point
scale ranging from 1
(completely false) to 6
(completely true)

Young, Roach, & Hagedorn (ACA, 2009)

Ryan, Rigby & King

(1993)

Pargament, Koenig,
and Perez (2000)

Fiala, Bjorck, and

Gorsuch (2002)

Hays, Meador, Branch

& George, (2001)

Jagers & Smith (1996)

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Daily Spiritual
Experience Scale

Brown-Peterson
Recovery Index (BPRPI)

Spiritual Competency
Scale (SCS)

Ordinary experiences
of spirituality; awe, joy
that lifts one up, deep
inner peace, gratitude,
and love
Spirituality in
members of
Alcoholics
Anonymous (AA)
Competency to
counsel on spiritual
and religious issues

16 item measure with

6 responses ranging
from never or almost
never to many times a
day
53 item instrument
rated on a 5 point
scale from 0 (no or
never) to 4 (yes, daily,
or always)
28 item, six factor
instrument with seven
response format.

Young, Roach, & Hagedorn (ACA, 2009)

Underwood & Teresi

(2002)

Brown & Peterson

(1991)

Robertson (2008).

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Selected Instruments for the Qualitative Measure of Spirituality and Religion

Instrument
Spiritual Narrative

Spiritual Histories
Spiritual Life Maps
Spiritual Genograms
Spiritual Ecomaps
Spiritual Ecograms

Spiritual Dimensions

Spiritual Quest Form

(SQF)

Experience Based
Spiritual Development
Scale (EBSDS)
Faith Development

Construct
Measured

Brief Description
of the Instrument

Awareness of the
Holy, providence,
faith, grace or
gratefulness,
repentance,
communion, and
sense of vocation
Explore spiritual &
religious themes,
significant life events,
spiritual journeys,
intergenerational
patterns, spiritual
strengths &
relationships
Beliefs and meaning;
vocation and
consequences;
experiences and
emotions; courage
and growth; ritual and
practice; community;
and authority and
guidance
Seeks to understand
the clients process
toward spiritual
growth and
development
Scourge, Emerge,
Purge, Diverge,
Resurge, Converge,
and Merge
Intuitive-Projective
Faith, Mythical-Literal
Faith, SyntheticConventional Faith,
IndividuativeReflective Faith,
Conjunctive Faith, and
Universalizing Faith

Provides an
understanding of the
clients spiritual
narrative in relation to
7 Christian themes

Pruyser (1976)

Utilize existing
frameworks of
systemic
assessments with a
focus on spirituality

Hodge (2005)

Offers guidelines for

assessing 7 spiritual
dimensions in two
subdivisions;
holistically and
explicitly spiritual; and
can be utilized with a
wide variety of faith
traditions.
10-item sentence
completion task
followed by an indepth dialog that
produces a narrative
Identifies seven
stages of spiritual
realization

Fitchett (1993)

Assesses stages of
faith development
thorough the use of
Faith Interviews

James Fowler (1981)

Young, Roach, & Hagedorn (ACA, 2009)

Citation

Nino(1997)

Sandhu and Asrabadi

(2003)
Sandhu (2007)

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The Spiritual Lifemap

from Hodge (2005) Spiritual Assessment in Marital and Family Therapy

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The Spiritual Lifemap

Spiritual lifemaps are a graphic representation of a verbal spiritual history they note the clients
spiritual journey with pictures along a lifeline. Much like roadmaps, spiritual lifemaps tell us
where we have come from, where we are now, and where we are going (Hodge, 2005, p. 344).
Uses:
A spiritual lifemap can be used with individuals, couples, and families. If it is used with couples
or families, each individual can construct his/her own lifemap or the couple/family can jointly
construct a single lifemap representing their shared spiritual story.
Materials:
1. Drawing implements crayons, markers, colored pencils, chalk, paints (oil, watercolor,
acrylic, tempura), paint brushes, etc.
2. Paper large pieces of paper (e.g., 11" x 18" or 24" x 36") work best
3. Other stickers, stencils, construction paper, rulers, magazines, scissors, glue sticks, etc.
Directions:
1. In this exercise, you will depict those spiritually significant events that represent your
spiritual journey on a path, a roadway, or a single line.
2. Using hand-drawn symbols, cut-out pictures, stickers, and so on, mark the key events along
your journey (e.g., birth, death, loss of a job, spiritual crisis, spiritual encounter, etc.).
3. Indicate on your lifemap the various trials you have faced along with the spiritual resources
you have used to overcome those trials. You may want to depict hills, bumps and potholes,
rain, clouds, lightning, and so on, to portray difficult life situations. Feel free to use words
that you write or cut out of magazines to highlight these events.
4. Indicate your age at the various spiritual milestones along your journey, both those that were
difficult and those that were positive.
5. Somewhere on the lifemap, indicate three spiritual strengths that you have developed while
on your journey.
Processing:
1. Present your spiritual lifemap to the group (or to the counselor) share the symbols you
used, why you chose what you did to represent various events, and what your journey has
been like for you.
2. What patterns do you notice?
3. Who have been the significant figures along your spiritual journey (both human and
transcendent)?
4. What strengths emerged from your lifemap?
5. What are some successful strategies that you have used in the past that can suggest
options for overcoming some of your present struggles?
6. What was this process like for you?

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