What is it about?
Religion is thought to contribute to meaning in life and consequently relates to whether people think in narrower or broader ways. This study establishes a way to measure tendency to think about religious actions in broader ways.
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Why is it important?
Measuring meaning life is challenging as most people automatically find meaning in what they do. This work presents a new scale to indirectly measure people's tendency to adopt more meaningful, comprehensive, broad ways of understanding religious actions.
Perspectives
The "religious behavioral identification form" may be a novel tool to better understand how psychological processes relate to the association between religion, spirituality, meaning in life, and wellbeing.
Jay Michaels
University of South Florida
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This page is a summary of: The Religious Behavioral Identification Form (RBIF): A scale to measure global versus situational understanding of religious actions., Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, June 2021, American Psychological Association (APA),
DOI: 10.1037/rel0000427.
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