Private Religious Practices
1.How often do you pray privately in places other than church or synagogue?
2.How often do you read the Bible or other religious literature?
Religious Support
1.How often do the people in your congregation make you feel loved and cared for?
2.How often do you make the people in your congregation feel loved and cared for?
Note. No permission is needed to use the BMMRS measure or the individual subscales.
www.gem-beta.org/public/DownloadMeasure.aspx?mid 51155 (Retrieved May 24, 2014).
RELIGION SPECIFIC MEASURES
To our knowledge, scales that assess non-traditional forms of Christianity (Mormon, Unitarian, Jehovah
Witness) or American Indian religiosity do not exist. However, religion-specific measures have been developed
to quantify religious involvement in Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, and New Age populations. We present
some of these measures of religiosity below.
Jewish Religious Coping Scale (JCOPE)
(Rosmarin et al., 2009b ).
Variable
The JCOPE measures religious coping within the Jewish religious tradition.
Description
The JCOPE measure of religious coping was developed for use within Jewish populations. The JCOPE consists
of 16 items, including 12-item positive and 4-item negative RC subscales. Responses range on a Likert-type scale
from 1 ‘never’ to 5 ‘always’. Summing scores on the positive subscale produces a 12 /C060 score range, with higher
scores indicating greater positive religious coping; summing scores on the negative subscale produces a 4 /C020
score range, with higher scores indicating greater negative religious coping ( Rosmarin et al., 2009b ).
Sample
The JCOPE was developed in a sample of 468 Jewish persons (59% female, mean age 48, 36% Orthodox and
36% Reform, 86% with college) from Jewish congregations in the greater New York area and a mid-western city)
(Rosmarin et al., 2009b ). Confirmatory factor analysis and relationships with anxiety and depression were
assessed in a sample of 234 Jewish persons (55% female, mean age 37, 60% Orthodox and 21% Conservative)
mostly from the U.S., Canada, and Israel (surveyed online).
Reliability
Internal Consistency
Cronbach alpha coefficients have been reported for both the positive subscale (0.93) and for the negative sub-
scale (0.69) ( Rosmarin et al., 2009b ).
Test/C0Retest
To our knowledge, no studies have reported test /C0retest reliability coefficients to-date.550 19. MEASURES OF RELIGIOSITY
V. VICES AND VIRTUES