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SUBMITTER: Bluemke M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5070870 | biostudies-literature | 2016
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Bluemke Matthias M Jong Jonathan J Grevenstein Dennis D Mikloušić Igor I Halberstadt Jamin J
PloS one 20161019 10
Despite claims about the universality of religious belief, whether religiosity scales have the same meaning when administered inter-subjectively-or translated and applied cross-culturally-is currently unknown. Using the recent "Supernatural Belief Scale" (SBS), we present a primer on how to verify the strong assumptions of measurement invariance required in research on religion. A comparison of two independent samples, Croatians and New Zealanders, showed that, despite a sophisticated psychometr ...[more]