Expressions of Spirituality Inventory (ESI) as the method of measuring spirituality
Abstract
The aim of our research was to test the Czech version of the questionnaire ESI on Czech population. Expressions of Spirituality Inventory (ESI) created by DA MacDonald in 2000 consist of 32 items and 5 scales. These scales are: a range of cognitive orientation to spirituality COS, experiential-phenomenological dimension EPD, existential dimension – well-being EWB, dimension of paranormal beliefs PAR and dimensions of religiosity REL. It has been found that religion belief is the factor that has the strongest correlation with dimensions of ESI inventory. We proofed that ESI has good parameters for the research on the Czech population.
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Keywords
spirituality, measurement of spirituality, ESI inventory, religious beliefLiterature
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