Department of Classics, Archeology, and Religion, University of Missouri, 205 Swallow Hall, Columbia, MO, 65211, USA.
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur, India.
J Relig Health. 2022 Aug;61(4):3492-3506. doi: 10.1007/s10943-021-01433-0. Epub 2021 Oct 2.
The Brief Multidimensional Measure of Religiousness/Spirituality (BMMRS) is regularly used to measure spirituality and religiosity in U.S. Christian populations, although it has not been used for making comparisons with non-Western groups. This study compared BMMRS results for 109 individuals (60 in the U.S. and 49 in India) with traumatic brain injury (TBI) from different cultures (U.S., India), ethnic groups (African American, Caucasian, South Asian), and religions (Christian, Hindu, Muslim). In general, the results indicated that U.S. African Americans and Christians reported being the most spiritual, South Asians and Hindus the least. Groups differed significantly in self-reported spiritual experiences, but less in frequency of religious activities. Results suggest using caution when applying Western-based measures of religion and spirituality in non-Western, non-Christian populations.
《简明宗教/精神多维测量表》（BMMRS）常用于衡量美国基督教群体的精神信仰和宗教信仰，但尚未用于与非西方群体进行比较。本研究比较了来自不同文化（美国、印度）、种族群体（非裔美国人、白种人、南亚人）和宗教信仰（基督教、印度教、穆斯林）的 109 名创伤性脑损伤（TBI）患者（美国 60 人，印度 49 人）的 BMMRS 结果。总的来说，结果表明，美国非裔美国人和基督教徒报告说最有精神信仰，南亚人和印度教徒则最少。不同群体在自我报告的精神体验方面存在显著差异，但在宗教活动的频率方面差异较小。结果表明，在非西方、非基督教群体中应用基于西方的宗教和精神信仰测量方法时需要谨慎。
