Maranell’s Religious Attitudes Scales – RAS
Measures multidimensional religious attitudes across dimensions including church orientation, ritualism, altruism, fundamentalism, theism, and idealism.
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Measures multidimensional religious attitudes across dimensions including church orientation, ritualism, altruism, fundamentalism, theism, and idealism.
Distinguishes types of Christian religious belief based on love-oriented, guilt-oriented, and conventional interpretations of atonement and faith.
A multidimensional instrument designed to assess relationships between various aspects of individual religion and philosophy of life.
A multidimensional self-report assessment measuring the extent to which a respondent favors doctrinal/intellectual modes of religious expression versus…
Measures the impact of religion on daily life, ritual practices, and cognitive orientation toward a transcendent reality.
Measures seven dimensions of religiosity, including personal faith, intolerance of ambiguity, orthodoxy, social conscience, knowledge of religious history,…
Measures multidimensional religious attitudes, specifically distinguishing between a 'nearness of God' perspective and a 'fundamentalism-humanitarianism' view.
Measures four dimensions of religiosity: doctrinal orthodoxy, devotionalism, associational involvement, and communal involvement.
Measures multidimensional aspects of religiosity and religious attitudes across church orientation, ritualism, altruism, fundamentalism, theism, idealism, and superstition.
A multidimensional assessment of religious expression within the context of evangelical Christian faith, measuring the extent to which…
Measures theological positions, beliefs, and practices across 12 distinct subscales to identify areas of agreement and disagreement within…
Measures the extent to which individuals turn to religion to cope with stressful life circumstances.
Measures multidimensional aspects of religious involvement across seven distinct factors including personal faith, orthodoxy, and church involvement.
Measures the degree of responsibility and initiative assigned to oneself or God in the process of solving life's…
Measures multidimensional religiosity across four dimensions: doctrinal orthodoxy, devotionalism, associational involvement, and communal involvement.
A multidimensional self-report instrument designed to measure ten distinct dimensions of religious belief, practice, and orientation.
Measures the occurrence of core spiritual experiences characterized by a conviction of God's existence and a feeling of…
A 32-item self-report instrument designed to assess an individual's intense mystical experiences, characterized by a sense of unity…
Measures 12 components of theological position and disagreement among members of the Protestant community of faith.
Measures an individual's spiritual development and spiritual maturity from both an object relations and a contemplative spirituality perspective.
Measures the extent to which individuals turn to different religious coping strategies to deal with stressful life circumstances.
Measures three distinct religious problem-solving styles (Collaborative, Self-Directing, and Deferring) to understand the role of religion in the…
A multidimensional assessment tool designed to evaluate religiosity, spiritual growth, and maturity from a holistic perspective.
Measures core spiritual experiences characterized by a conviction of God's existence and a highly internalized relationship with God.
A global psychological measure of an individual's perception of spiritual well-being, encompassing both religious and existential dimensions.
A self-report instrument designed to assess an individual's intense experiences characterized by a sense of unity with the…
Measures specific concepts regarding the type of God in whom belief is placed using adjective ratings.
Measures an individual's spiritual development and maturity from both an object relations and a contemplative spirituality perspective.
Measures the relationship between individuals' symbolic images of Mother, Father, and God with respect to maternal and paternal…
A multidimensional assessment tool evaluating religiosity in terms of spiritual growth and maturity from a holistic perspective.
Measures an individual's felt, intuitive, and affectively laden experience of God across six main dimensions and two control…
A 20-item self-report instrument designed to measure overall spiritual well-being through religious and existential dimensions.
Measures two primary dimensions of an individual's image of God: a loving God image and a controlling God…
Measures specific concepts and perceptions regarding the type of God in whom belief is placed.
Measures the extent to which an individual feels God is real, constantly near, and accessible.
A unidimensional scale designed to measure Christian fundamentalist belief, focusing primarily on the authority and inerrancy of the…
Measures the relationship between individuals' symbolic images of Mother, Father, and God with respect to maternal and paternal…
Measures the extent to which an individual subscribes to the orthodox tenets of the Christian faith, emphasizing a…
A qualitative sentence completion instrument designed to reveal the nature of an individual's internalized images of and beliefs…
Measures a fundamentalist way of holding and expressing one's religious beliefs, characterized by the belief in an inerrant…
Measures an individual's felt, intuitive, and affectively laden experience of God across six main subscales and two control…
Measures fundamentalistic, doctrinaire, and conservative religious beliefs, stressing dogma and supernaturalism.
Measures strong religious beliefs, religiously motivated behavior, and fundamentalist religious attitudes.
Measures two primary dimensions of an individual's image of God: a loving God image and a controlling God…
Measures the degree to which an individual believes that life continues, in some form, after the physical death…
Measures the extent to which an individual feels God is real, constantly near, and accessible.
Measures death acceptance, conceptualized as coming to terms with death through thought and effort and maintaining a positive…
Measures an individual's level of anxiety and fear regarding death and dying.
Measures Christian fundamentalist belief, focusing primarily on the authority and inerrancy of the Bible.
Measures multidimensional emotional reactions and perspectives toward the concept of death.
Measures the extent to which an individual subscribes to orthodox Christian beliefs, emphasizing a literal interpretation of the…
Measures the cognitive and experiential ways individuals seek to transcend death and achieve a sense of immortality.
Measures a fundamentalist way of holding and expressing one's religious beliefs, characterized by the belief in an inerrant,…
Measures the extent to which individuals attribute positive life event outcomes to God, personal responsibility, luck, or personal…
Measures beliefs associated with religious fundamentalism, orthodoxy, and conservatism, emphasizing dogma and supernaturalism.
Measures strong religious beliefs, religiously motivated behavior, and fundamentalist religious attitudes.
A unidimensional measure of an individual's self-reported belief in divine intervention across various situations.
Measures the degree to which an individual believes that life continues, in some form, after the physical death…
Measures the extent to which an individual believes that God is involved in a supernatural way with the…
Measures death acceptance, conceptualized as coming to terms with death and holding a positive attitude toward it.
Measures the degree to which a respondent has forgiven a specific offender across cognitive, affective, and behavioral dimensions.
Measures an individual's anxiety and attitudes toward death-related topics.
Measures the degree to which a respondent has forgiven a specific offender across cognitive, affective, and behavioral dimensions.
A multidimensional self-report instrument designed to measure different emotional reactions and perspectives toward the concept of death.
Measures the cognitive orientation toward death and the ways individuals implicitly wish to transcend death and seek immortality.
Measures a respondent's preference for a church-like or sect-like religious orientation.
Measures the extent to which individuals attribute life event outcomes to personal responsibility, luck, effort, or divine intervention.
Measures a range of favorable and unfavorable attitudes toward the church as an institution and a locus of…
A unidimensional measure of an individual's self-reported belief in divine intervention.
Measures the attitudes of members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) toward their…
Measures an individual's general predisposition to attribute events to God and divine intervention rather than naturalistic causes.
Measures the degree to which a respondent has forgiven a specific offender who has hurt or offended them…
A multidimensional self-report scale designed to measure the cognitive, affective, and behavioral aspects of forgiveness toward a specific…
Measures the psychosocial climate and unique personality of religious congregations across five dimensions.
Quantifies preference for a church-like (integrated with prevailing social order) versus a sect-like (separate subculture with rigid boundaries)…
Measures church and synagogue members' satisfaction with various dimensions of their religious institutions.
Measures a range of favorable and unfavorable attitudes toward the church as a generalized institution and a locus…
Measures the attitudes of members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) toward their…
Measures individual belief systems on the dimensions of their relative openness or closedness.
Measures the degree to which an individual believes in free will, psychosocial determinism, or religious-philosophical determinism.
Measures the psychosocial climate and organizational personality of religious congregations across five dimensions.
Measures the degree to which an individual experiences meaning and purpose in life, as opposed to existential frustration…
Measures church and synagogue members' satisfaction with various dimensions of their religious institutions.
Measures individual differences in openness or closedness of belief systems, general authoritarianism, and intolerance.
Measures the extent to which individuals believe control of their lives is in their own hands (internal) or…
Measures the strength of an individual's beliefs in free will (libertarianism), religious-philosophical determinism, and psychosocial determinism.
Measures the trait of authoritarianism in the service of established authority, combining authoritarian submission, authoritarian aggression, and conventionalism.
Measures the extent to which individuals believe that control of their lives is in their own hands (internal)…
Measures beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors associated with humanistic self-actualization.
Measures the trait of right-wing authoritarianism, defined as the combination of authoritarian submission, authoritarian aggression, and conventionalism.
Measures attitudes toward using a transpersonal approach in education, incorporating intuitive, mystical, and transcendent modes of consciousness.
Measures beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors that indicate an individual's level of self-actualization.
A 7-item scale designed to measure general relationship satisfaction.
Measures attitudes toward using a transpersonal approach in education, emphasizing spiritual potential, intuitive modes of consciousness, and transcendent…
A 17-item self-report instrument designed to measure trust in close interpersonal relationships across three dimensions: predictability, dependability, and…
A 42-item self-report instrument designed to measure six distinct love styles directed toward a specific romantic partner.
A 7-item scale designed to measure general relationship satisfaction.
Measures the apprehension that others might be having rewarding experiences from which one is absent, characterized by the…
A 17-item self-report instrument designed to measure trust in close interpersonal relationships across three dimensions: predictability, dependability, and…
A 28-item self-report scale designed to measure wisdom based on seven components: empathy/compassion, decisiveness, emotional regulation, self-reflection, tolerance…