A Short Spirituality Scale Grounded in the Bhagavad Gita: Development and Validation in India.
Journal of Religion and Health September 27, 2026 Kiran Bhagwandas, Latha Satish, Jayaraman Mahadevan
Spirituality is increasingly recognized for its association with emotional and physical health. However, many existing measures conflate it with general well-being or religiosity, making it difficult to examine spirituality as a distinct construct. The present study introduces the Short Spirituality Scale (SSS) to address this problem. It consists of a ten-item spirituality measure grounded in...
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Bhagavad gita
Confirmatory factor analysis
Mental health
Psychometric validation
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