Table 4. Psychometric properties of spirituality/religiosity (S/R) instruments available for Portuguese language.
Name of scale | Number of items | Translation process | Cross-cultural adaptation | Internal consistency | Concurrent validity | Discriminative validity | Test-retest procedure |
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Francis Scale of Attitude Towards Christianity(P) | 24 | Yes | Yes | 0.96 | No | No | No |
Strayhorn, Weidman and Larson Religious Scale (B) | 9 | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No |
Moschella Religious Scale (B) | 34 | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No |
Private and Social Religious Practice Scale (B) | 10 | Yes | Yes | N/A | No | No | No |
Intrinsic Religious Motivation Scale (B) | 12 | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No |
Spiritual/Religious Coping Scale (B) | 87 | Yes | Yes | 0.97 | Yes | Yes | No |
Pinto and Pais-Ribeiro’s Spirituality Scale (P) | 5 | N/A | N/A | 0.74 | Yes | Yes | No |
Brief Santa Clara Strength of Religious Faith (P) | 5 | Yes | Yes | 0.93 | Yes | No | No |
FACIT-Sp 12 (B) | 12 | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No |
Spiritual Well-Being Scale (B) | 20 | Yes | Yes | 0.92 | No | No | No |
Spirituality Self-Rating Scale (B) | 6 | Yes | Yes | 0.83 | No | Yes | No |
Aquino’s Religiousness/Spirituality Attitude (B) | 15 | N/A | N/A | 0.87 | Yes | Yes | No |
Duke Religion Index (B)* | 5 | Yes | Yes | 0.75 | Yes* | Yes | Yes* |
Pinto and Pais-Ribeiro’s Spirituality Scale (B) | 5 | N/A | Yes | 0.64 | No | No | No |
WHOQOL-SRPB (B) | 32 | Yes | Yes | 0.96 | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Self-reported Religiosity (B) | 1 | Yes | Yes | N/A | No | No | No |
WHOQOL-100 - SRPB questions (B) | 4 | Yes | Yes | 0.84 | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Brief Spiritual/Religious Coping Scale (B) | 49 | Yes | Yes | 0.93 | Yes | Yes | No |
Inspirit-R (B) | 7 | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No |
Daily Spiritual Experience Scale (B) | 16 | Yes | Yes | 0.91 | No | No | No |
Intrinsic Religiousness Inventory (B) | 10 | N/A | N/A | 0.96 | Yes | Yes | Yes |
N/A = not applicable; P = validated for Portugal; B = validated for Brazil. *Recently, a study showed good concurrent analysis and test-retest reliability relating to the Duke Religion Index was published. Since this study was accepted for publication after November 2011, it was not included in our systematic searches but we decided to report its findings here.42