Spirituality as a Basic Aspect of Personality: A Cross-Cultural Verification of Piedmont's Model

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This study generally confirms Piedmont's concept of spirituality as a dimension, or set of dimensions of individual differences, traditionally neglected by factor analytic research. Piedmont's model was found to hold in a different culture and with a spirituality questionnaire constructed on the basis of a strategy largely different from that of Piedmont (1999)19. Piedmont , R. 1999 . Does spirituality represent the sixth factor of personality? Spiritual transcendence and the Five-Factor Model. . Journal of Personality , 67 ( 6 ) : 985 - 1014 . [CrossRef], [Web of Science ®]View all references. An original six-scale Prague Spirituality Questionnaire (PSQ; Rican & Janosova, 2005) was devised. It was constructed for the extremely secularized Czech youth who largely reject organized religion. It was subjected to a joint exploratory factor analysis together with 30 facet scales of the NEO PI-R. The results were similar to those of Piedmont: Six factors were found, unambiguously interpretable as the Big Five plus a sixth factor saturating all of the 6 PSQ scales. Data supporting criterion, as well as construct validity of the PSQ, are also given.View full textDownload full textRelated var addthis_config = { ui_cobrand: "Taylor & Francis Online", services_compact: "citeulike,netvibes,twitter,technorati,delicious,linkedin,facebook,stumbleupon,digg,google,more", pubid: "ra-4dff56cd6bb1830b" }; Add to shortlist Link Permalink http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10508610903418053