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R. E. Sears

2 papers in the library · publishing 2015-2016

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Dreaming mystical experience among Christians and Hindus: the impact of culture, language, and religious participation on responses to the Dreaming Mysticism Scale

Assessment of Mental Health, Religion and Culture September 13, 2016 R. E. Sears, R. Hood

ABSTRACT This study examines the responses of Nepali Christians and Hindus to the newly developed Dreaming Mysticism Scale (DMS). Factor breakdowns of the DMS for Christians and Hindus were basically identical, and together they and the factor breakdown of the combined sample suggest an interpretation–extraversion–interpretation typology that corresponds to the typical finding of studies...

The Construction, Preliminary Validation, and Correlates of a Dream‐Specific Scale for Mystical Experience

March 1, 2015 R. E. Sears

This study aimed to create and test a dream‐specific version of Hood's Mysticism (M) Scale for the purpose of studying dreaming mystical experience. Factor analysis of the Spiritual Dreams Scale (SDS), based on data collected from 289 adults affiliated with an American evangelical Christian school, clearly resulted in three factors in accordance with prior studies of the M Scale. However, the...