Importance of Spirituality - Collateral Baseline
This measure appears in the following time-points: Baseline.
Related Construct
Description of Measure
The Importance of Spirituality measure, developed by Maton (1989), is a highly reliable assessment of spirituality (Maton, Teti, Corns, Vieira-Baker, Lavine, Gouze, and Keating, 1996). One item is included to evaluate the participant's average yearly service attendance (e.g., "During the past year, how often did X attend church, synagogue, or other religious service?"). This is left as an individual item.
The following individual item is available for this measure:
- Past year how often the subject attended church [C0_Rlg1]
Data Issues
This measure is comprised of five items at the subject baseline and subject follow-up interviews. The collateral baseline measure includes only one of those five items.
References
- Maton, K.I. (1989). The stress-buffering role of spiritual support: Cross-sectional and prospective investigations. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 28(3), 310-323
- Maton, K.I., Teti, D., Corns, K., Vieira-Baker, K., Lavine, J., Gouze, K.R., and Keating, D. (1996). Cultural specificity of social support sources, correlates and contexts: Three studies of African-American and Caucasian youth. American Journal of Community Psychology, 24, 551-587.