Measuring Cross-Cultural Supernatural Beliefs with Self- and Peer-Reports.

ABSTRACT: Despite claims about the universality of religious belief, whether religiosity scales have the same meaning when administered inter-subjectively-or translated and applied cross-culturally-is currently unknown. Using the recent "Supernatural Belief Scale" (SBS), we present a primer on how to verify the strong assumptions of measurement invariance required in research on religion. A comparison of two independent samples, Croatians and New Zealanders, showed that, despite a sophisticated psychometric model, measurement invariance could be demonstrated for the SBS except for two noninvariant intercepts. We present a new approach for inspecting measurement invariance across self- and peer-reports as two dependent samples. Although supernatural beliefs may be hard to observe in others, the measu

SUBMITTER: Bluemke M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5070870 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature