Russian Version of the Sources of Spirituality Scale

Abstract

The article presents the results of development of the Russian version of Sources of Spirituality Scale (SOS-Ru scale) based on the SOS scale by Davis et al. for assessing spiritual experiences connected with different objects: Theistic, Transcendent, Human, Nature, Self. Approbation of the Russian version was realized in the sample comprising 412 participants (70% were women) at the age from 17 till 69 y.o. (M=26.8; SD=9.65) who completed online or pen-and-pencil survey. During analysis of validity, we used tests which assess religious spirituality, paranormal beliefs, global social identification, connectedness to nature, hedonism and eudemonia, moral foundations and subjective well-being. The results of CFA confirmed theoretical structure of the SOS-Ru scale. The reliability of subscales was high (0.73—0.95). Validity of subscales was confirmed by correlations with relevant indicators: the Theistic subscale showed the highest correlations with religious spirituality, the Human subscale was most related with global social identification, the Nature subscale was highly correlated with connectedness to nature. The subscales of the SOS-Ru scale showed expected correlations with eudemonia, moral foundations, paranormal beliefs and well-being. Using latent profile analysis we elicited groups with high, moderate, low levels of general spirituality and a group with secular spirituality. The data on gender differences and descriptive statistics which may be used as approximate statistical norms are presented.