Dini ve manevi mücadele ölçeği’nin türkçe uyarlaması: geçerlik ve güvenirlik çalışması

Abstract

This study aims to adapt the Religious and Spiritual Struggles Scale (RSS-14) developed by Exline, Pargament, Wilt, Grubbs and Yali in 2023 to Turkish through validity and reliability studies. This scale, which aims to measure the religious and spiritual struggle experienced by individuals, consists of 14 items and 6 subscales. The study group of the research group comprised 495 adults, including 302 women and 193 men. In the adapting process, after the first translation and pilot application, confirmatory factor analysis was applied to analyze the scale's factor structure. In the conclusion of the confirmatory factor analysis, the model demonstrated an acceptable level of fit. Accordingly, it is observed that the items constituting the scale have factor loadings ranging between .55 and .83. The overall internal reliability coefficient of the scale was found to be .82. Cronbach's alpha reliability coefficients regarding subscales range between .60 and .82. As a result of the item analysis, it has been observed that the discrimination level of the items in the scale was at a good level. The significant positive correlation between the Religious and Spiritual Struggles Scale and the negative religious coping sub-dimension of the Religious Coping Styles Scale showed that the criterion-related validity of the scale is at a sufficient level (r= .67; p<0.01). As a result of the study, it is affirmed that the Religious and Spiritual Struggles Scale is a valid and reliable measurement tool for Muslim Turkish culture.