Download Free Development and Validation of the Inclusive Spirituality Index Book PDF ByJanet Lynn Muse-Burke Total Download 40 “What you don’t know would make a great book.” –Sydney Smith Synopsis The purpose of this study was to develop and validate a self-report measure of spirituality (i.e., the Inclusive Spirituality Index; ISI), which can be used with religious and nonreligious people. Spirituality was defined as the part of one's identity that involves purpose and meaning in life, interdependence with others, inner peace, and transcendence. A two-stage process was employed to create the ISI. Stage I concerned scale construction and examined the content validity and clarity of the ISI. Nineteen experts of religion and spirituality rated an initial item pool of 57 items. Inter-rater agreement analyses determined that 10 items should be dropped, leaving a final index containing 47 items. In Stage 2, 251 respondents were solicited to investigate the ISI's reliability and va...