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The Religious Commitment Inventory--10: Development, refinement, and validation of a brief scale for research and counseling.

Everett L. WorthingtonVirginia Commonwealth UniversityNathaniel G. WadeVirginia Commonwealth U, Dept of Psychology, Richmond, VA, USTerry L. HightVirginia Commonwealth U, Dept of Psychology, Richmond, VA, USJennifer S. RipleyRegent U, Dept of Psychology, Virginia Beach, VA, USMichael E. McCulloughSouthern Methodist U, Dept of Psychology, Dallas, TX, USJack W. BerryVirginia Commonwealth U, Dept of Psychology, Richmond, VA, USMichelle M. SchmittVirginia Commonwealth U, Dept of Psychology, Richmond, VA, USJames T. BerryEbenezer Counseling Services, Knoxville, TN, USKevin H. BursleyU Pittsburgh, Counseling Ctr, Pittsburgh, PA, USLynn E. O’ConnorWright Inst, Dept of Psychology, US

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The authors report the development of the Religious Commitment Inventory-10 (RCI-10), used in 6 studies. Sample sizes were 155, 132, and 150 college students; 240 Christian church-attending married adults; 468 undergraduates including (among others) Buddhists (n = 52), Muslims (n = 12), Hindus (n = 10), and nonreligious (n = 117); and 217 clients and 52 counselors in a secular or 1 of 6 religious counseling agencies. Scores on the RCI-10 had strong estimated internal consistency, 3-week and 5-month test-retest reliability, construct validity, and discriminant validity. Exploratory (Study 1) and confirmatory (Studies 4 and 6) factor analyses identified 2 highly correlated factors, suggesting a 1-factor structure as most parsimonious. Religious commitment predicted response to an imagined robbery (Study 2), marriage (Study 4), and counseling (Study 6).

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DOI: 10.1037/0022-0167.50.1.84

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