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Abstract
Spirituality appears to play a role in reducing the incidence of disease and in coping successfully with problems. Given the benefits of spiritually based interventions, accurate assessment of an individual's spirituality is important. The 18-item Spiritual Health Inventory (SHI) was developed for that purpose. It was subsequently expanded to 30 items, but the longer version was never subjected to psychometric testing. The present study assessed the expanded version of the SHI using data from two substance abusing samples. Factor analysis results suggested three underlying factors labeled “Spiritual Experience,” “Spiritual Locus of Control,” and “Spiritual Well-Being.” Tests of reliability indicated good reliability for the scale as a whole and for its subscales.