Psychometrics properties of the spiritual transcendence scale (STS) among Iranian university students

ABSTRACT

In this cross sectional study, the subjects were 390 students. The findings revealed two components of spiritual transcendence and spiritual openness and also the questions that had high factor loadings with these components are largely consistent with the findings of the scale’s authors. Construct validity and reliability were ascertained and the goodness of fit was determined for the Spiritual Transcendence Scale (KMO: 91). The ensemble of the model’s coefficients are x²/sd = 418.39, RMESEA = .68, NFI = .95, CFI = .97. Results showed that the exploratory two-factor analysis (EFA) of this research is good-fitted without the need for modification.

KEYWORDS:

• Psychometrics properties
• Spiritual Transcendence Scale
• student
• validity
• reliability

Acknowledgments

The authors would like to thank all the participants who helped us in this study.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

Ethical approval

This study was approved by the Ethics Committee of Islamic Azad University of Gonabad in March 6, 2018 under the code of IAG.14020708962005. All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were by the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee.

Informed consent

Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.

Correction Statement

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