Seven Scales to Measure the Seven Beatitudes in Leaders

Abstract

This study presents seven scales for the seven beatitudes found in Matthew 5: 3-10. Separate scales were created rather than a conceptual instrument with seven factors since the ‘concept’ of ‘Beatitude’ does not exist and since the seven beatitudes are related in various ways making them highly correlated. The seven scales were reduced to five items each. The resultant Chronbach alpha scores were .86, .95, .89, .92, .93, .93, .92 for each of the scales. The value of the seven scales lies in their ability to assist researchers to compare leadership effectiveness with the seven representative values and, in time after normative data is developed, to offer a measure to help with leadership selection.

Instilling Christian Principles of Business Success in the Classroom

“…In Kilroy, Bekker, Bocarnea, and Winston (2014), they develop seven five-item scales from the Seven Beatitudes that have a significant positive correlation with the Essential Servant Leadership Behavior scale and significant negative correlation with the Despotic Leadership scale. One of these scales is from the Fourth Beatitude: "Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness."…”