Measures of Spirituality/Religiosity (2018)

Abstract

The interest in the topic of spirituality as an independent dimension of quality of life is continuously growing, and also the research questions start to change because also the fields of religiosity are changing, becoming more diverse and pluralistic. To address the new topics in health research, one may rely on standardized questionnaires. Several of these new questions cannot be easily answered with the instruments designed for previous questions, and thus new instruments are constantly developed. The number of instruments intended to measure specific aspects of spirituality is growing and it is difficult to value particularly the new ones.