Factor validity and internal consistency of the Expressions of Spirituality Inventory – Revised (ESI-R) : The Czech context

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Authors

GABRHEL Vít JEŽEK Stanislav

Year of publication 2017
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source International Journal of Transpersonal Studies
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Faculty of Social Studies

Citation
Web https://digitalcommons.ciis.edu/ijts-transpersonalstudies/vol36/iss1/10/
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.24972/ijts.2017.36.1.101
Field Psychology
Keywords Psychometric; measurement; spirituality; cross-cultural
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Description This study is the first attempt to examine the validity of the Expressions of Spirituality Inventory (ESI-R) for use in the Czech context. Data were obtained via online survey from 222 emerging adults (18-25 years; 82% women), with a background in helping professions. Structural equation modelling revealed reasonably good support for structural validity of the ESI-R factor model. In addition, all of the dimension scores showed acceptable interitem consistency. However, our findings presumptively point to problems with measurement non-invariance as some items were observed to correlate with different dimensions than expected. Overall, these findings are consistent with cross-cultural research on ESI-R showing that the ESI-R has structural but not measurement invariance at the item and dimension level and provide support for further use of the ESI-R with Czech respondents.
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