Description

The Religious Emphasis Scale (RES) is a tool designed to assess the extent to which an individual emphasizes or focuses on various aspects of religiosity. It explores how religious belief and practice influence an individual’s preferences, values, and life choices. The Religious Emphasis Scale includes questions that typically address:
Emphasis on Faith: How important religious faith is in the individual’s daily life.
Religious Practices: The significance attributed to specific religious practices and ceremonies.
Religious Support: The role of religion in providing emotional and social support for the individual.
Ethical and Moral Values: How religious values influence moral decisions and behavior.

Objective

The main goal of the Religious Emphasis Scale is to:
Measure the Emphasis on Religion: To record the extent to which religion is central to an individual’s life and influences their daily activities and decisions.
Evaluate the Relationship Between Religion and Other Life Aspects: To examine how religious emphasis is related to social and psychological variables.
Support Research and Intervention: To provide data for studying the impact of religion on personal development, mental health, and social behavior.

Analysis

The analysis of the results from the Religious Emphasis Scale includes:
Categorization and Data Summarization: Analyzing the results to categorize the level of religious emphasis based on the importance given to different religious aspects.
Descriptive Statistical Analysis: Using descriptive statistics to present the results, such as means, variances, and proportions.
Correlation with Other Variables: Examining the relationship between religious emphasis and other psychological or social parameters, such as well-being, social support, and ethical values.

Scoring

The scoring of the Religious Emphasis Scale includes:
Content Validity: Ensuring that the scale covers all relevant aspects of religious emphasis.
Internal Consistency: Evaluating the consistency of the questions using reliability indicators, such as Cronbach’s alpha coefficient.
Criterion Validity: Examining the relationship between the scale results and other related criteria or measurements.
Reproducibility: Assessing the stability of the results over time or across different samples.

References

Allport, G. W., & Ross, J. M. (1967). Personal Religious Orientation and Prejudice. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 5(4), 432-443.
Glock, C. Y., & Stark, R. (1965). Religion and Society in Tension. University of Chicago Press.
Koenig, H. G., McCullough, M. E., & Larson, D. B. (2001). Handbook of Religion and Health. Oxford University Press.
Pargament, K. I. (1997). The Psychology of Religion and Coping: Theory, Research, Practice. Guilford Press.
Wulff, D. M. (1997). Psychology of Religion: Classic and Contemporary Views. Wiley-Blackwell.