2007/10/05 by Jon Randolph Haber, Theodore Jacob, David J. C. Spangler · 1 citation
Social Sciences · Psychology · Medicine · #Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology #Religion and Society Interactions #Religion, Society, and Development #Religiosity #Psychology #Spirituality #Personality #Social psychology #Variance (accounting) #Coping (psychology) #Existentialism #Clinical psychology #Medicine
paper · doi:10.1080/10508610701572770
openalex publication_date 2007/10/05 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/29
This study aimed to identify unique religion/ spirituality (R/S) factors that account for variation in R/S measures of interest to health research. A 127-item questionnaire that included R/S items from classic, personality, clinical, and recent R/S-health research was administered to California state college students (n = 846) and to members of two California churches (n = 425). A seven-factor solution emerged that explained 61.5% of total variance that replicated across independent samples and that was highly stable across diverse subgroups. A large primary factor (28% of explained variance) included a number of key R/S measures assessing R/S motivation, devotion, and coping. Six other factors, each accounting for 6% to 9%, supported the discriminant validity of social support, existential well-being, extrinsic motivation, religious proscription, and two personality factors (spiritual and self transcendence). The link between current results and literature on health is discussed in terms of current causal models.