Department of Philosophy, Institute of Psychology in Kraków, Jesuit University Ignatianum, Krakow ul. Kopernika 26, 31-501, Kraków, Poland.
J Relig Health. 2021 Feb;60(1):576-595. doi: 10.1007/s10943-020-01084-7. Epub 2020 Sep 9.
The aim of this article is to present the issues of religious experience, and the associated experience of God's presence and God's absence, and then its operationalization, as well as to construct the Intensity of Religious Experience Scale, IRES (Skala Intensywności Doświadczenia Religijnego, SIDR). The value of psychometric tool, the reliability and validity, were assessed. The study was conducted in three steps. Study 1 concerned the generalization of statements related to conception of Catholic religious experience; i.e., the subjective feeling whether one experiences God's presence and God's absence, and how such beliefs affect certain aspects of a person's life. Study 2 was carried out on the sample of 217 people and was designed to perform Exploratory Factor Analysis and to assess three-week test-retest reliability of the IRES. Study 3 was based on the sample of 368 people and was aimed to perform Confirmatory Factor Analysis and concurrent validation of the IRES. The analysis of the religious experience showed that this kind of human experience has its own structure. The explication of the subject has confirmed the existence of two positive factors of religious experience; i.e., a subjective sense of experience of God's presence and God's absence that can influence on life of people living in the Catholic religion environment.
本文旨在介绍宗教体验以及与之相关的上帝临在和上帝不在的体验，然后对其进行操作化，并构建宗教体验强度量表（Intensity of Religious Experience Scale，IRES）。评估了心理计量工具的价值、信度和效度。该研究分三个步骤进行。研究 1 涉及与天主教宗教体验概念相关的陈述的推广，即主观感受是否经历了上帝的临在和不在，以及这些信仰如何影响一个人的生活的某些方面。研究 2 在 217 人的样本上进行，旨在进行探索性因素分析，并评估 IRES 的三周测试-重测信度。研究 3 基于 368 人的样本进行，旨在进行 IRES 的验证性因素分析和同时验证。对宗教体验的分析表明，这种人类体验具有其自身的结构。对主体的说明证实了宗教体验存在两个积极因素，即主观体验上帝临在和不在的感觉，这可能会影响生活在天主教环境中的人的生活。
