TY - RPRT
T1 - Supernatural Belief Scale (SBS) - German Version
T2 - Zusammenstellung sozialwissenschaftlicher Items und Skalen (ZIS)
AU - Bluemke, M
AU - Merkle, B
AU - Jong, J
AU - Halberstadt, J.
DO - https://zis.gesis.org/DoiId/zis252
UR - 10.6102/zis252
AB - The 10-item scale measures
the tendency to believe in supernatural entities such as immaterial agents, afterlife/otherworld
places, and miraculous earthly events. The scale is intended to be a valid
indicator of the cognitive component of religiosity, capturing ten
cross-cultural beliefs that appear as religious themes in various religious
contexts in the world. The scale was first tested in English by Jong, Bluemke,
& Halberstadt (2013). The SBS aims to be applicable to people of different
religious standing (atheists and believers alike), across various countries,
with a multitude of religious backgrounds, if necessary by adapting the labels
pertaining to the supernatural entities, while not altering the essence of the
item content or response format. After its seminal application in New Zealand,
and later in Croatia, among student samples with mostly a Christian cultural background,
it was applied in Germany, yielding good reliability, a replicable factor
structure, and cross-cultural measurement invariance (strict invariance across
Germans and New Zealanders). The scale showed signs of construct validity and
criterion validity in all samples (NZ, CRO, GER).
PY - 2017
PB - ZIS - GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
LA - en
SN - http://zis.gesis.org/