The Validation of a Spanish Version of the Multidimensional Inventory of Religious/Spiritual Well-Being in Mexican College Students

Abstract

After the Multidimensional Inventory for Religious/Spiritual Well-Being (MI-RSWB) was validated as a reliable instrument for the Western European context it is primarily intended in this study to translate the measure into Spanish and adapt it for the Mexican culture. Furthermore we investigate whether spirituality/religiosity has a similar impact on indicators of personality and subjective well-being in Mexico as it does in samples drawn from Western European cultures. 190 students (99 females) from public and private universities in Guadalajara, all Mexican citizens, were involved in this study. We found strong evidential support for the six factor solution of the Original MI-RSWB in this Mexican population. By mirroring previous research the measure showed a highly satisfying internal consistency (α = .91 for the total score and .75 or higher for all six sub dimensions). Furthermore the total RSWB score was observed to be related with Eysenck's personality dimensions Extraversion (r = .24, p < .01), and Psychoticism (r = -.28, p < .001), although not with Neuroticism. There was also a positive correlation with Sense of Coherence (r = .31, p < .001). In conclusion, the dimensionality of RSWB and its associations with personality and subjective well-being was well supported in this first application within a Mexican cultural context.

The Greek-Orthodox version of the Brief Religious Coping (B-RCOPE) instrument: psychometric properties in three samples and associations with mental disorders, suicidality, illness perceptions, and quality of life

“…The Brief Religious Coping (B-RCOPE) [ 5 , 6 ] has been largely used to assess religious coping. This instrument developed by Pargament and colleagues, and has been translated and validated in a number of languages including Arab [ 7 ], Iranian [ 8 ], Polish [ 9 ], and Spanish [ 10 ] as well as in several religions and doctrines including Protestants and Catholics [ 6 ], Hindus [ 11 ], and Jewish [ 12 ]. According to Pargament’s theory of religious coping, religious coping refers to the way one may understand and overcome stressful life situations using approaches related to the sacred [ 13 ].…”

“…The B-RCOPE has been administered to several populations including adolescents [ 9 ], college students [ 10 ], patients undergoing cardiac surgery [ 16 ], cancer patients and their caregivers [ 17 , 18 ], and medically ill elderly hospitalized patients [ 19 ], among others. Overall, PRC has been associated with favorable outcomes after exposure to stressful events [ 19 ] including but not limited to better overall quality of life and less symptoms of psychological distress (e.g., anxiety and depression).…”

The Swedish Version of the Multidimensional Inventory for Religious/Spiritual Well-Being: First Results From Swedish Students

“…Finally, the MI-RSWB has been proven to be significantly related to other prominent measures of religiosity, such as the "Centrality of Religiosity" C-Scale (CRS; Huber and Huber, 2012). Thereby, for instance, Berger et al (2016) reported positive links between CRS and all MI-RSWB scores except HT.…”

“…The latter resulted in norm values for the Austrian general population, with appealing psychometric properties for the subscales and the total score ( Unterrainer and Fink, 2013 ). So far, the questionnaire has been translated into and validated in English ( Unterrainer et al, 2012 ), Italian ( Stefa-Missagli et al, 2014 ), Mexican Spanish ( Berger et al, 2016 ), Bosnian ( Malinovic et al, 2016 ), Russian ( Agarkov et al, 2018 ), and Farsi ( Dadfar et al, 2019 ), thereby demonstrating satisfactory psychometric properties (with one exception for HT in Dadfar et al, 2019 ). However, confirmatory factor analysis of data obtained in Austrian ( Unterrainer et al, 2010 ) and British samples ( Unterrainer et al, 2012 ) revealed only limited empirical support for the original MI-RSWB structure.…”

A Russian Adaptation of the Multidimensional Inventory for Religious/Spiritual Well-Being

“…However, more recently it was observed, that General Religiosity, when paired with a disrupted personality structure, to be the strongest predictor of Religious Fundamentalism (Unterrainer et al, 2016). Meanwhile the original Austrian-German version of the scale has been successfully adapted into several different languages such as Bosnian (Malinovic, Fink, Lewis, & Unterrainer, 2016), English (Unterrainer, Nelson, Collicutt, & Fink, 2012), Italian (Stefa-Missagli, Huber, Fink, Sarlo, & Unterrainer, 2014) and Mexican-Spanish (Berger, Fink, Perez, Lewis, & Unterrainer, 2016). Moreover several additional studies in clinical surroundings were conducted by investigating various groups of general medical as well as psychiatric patients (Unterrainer et al, 2014).…”