Quest Religious Orientation Scale

Quest Religious Orientation Scale

The Quest Religious Orientation Scale is a measure designed to gauge individual’s religious inquisitiveness or curiosity, striving for spiritual understanding, and with their openness to doubt and ambiguity. Developed by Batson and Schoenrade (1991), Quest was created to capture the subjective experience of religiousness that emerges outside of organized religious settings.

Quest Religious Orientation Scale
Quest Religious Orientation Scale

The Quest Scale is composed of 14 items that are rated on a six-point scale ranging from “strongly disagree” to “strongly agree”. The items are divided into three subscales: (1) Intrinsic, comprising four items, (2) Quest, comprising six items, lastly (3) Extrinsic, comprising four items. The intrinsic items measure religion as a search for the Self, ultimate reality, community, and transcendence. The extrinsic items measure religion as an instrument for comfort, status, social orientation, and group identity. The Quest items capture the openness to change and the doubts regarding religious convictions.

The Quest Scale establishes adequate reliability (Chronbach α) across diverse populations and research populations. In past literature, the reliability alpha has ranged from .87 to .97. The validity of the tool is well established in relation to other measures of religiousness and well-being, and results indicate that the Quest Scale offers adequate construct validity (Batson & Schoenrade, 1991).

Moreover, evidence shows that the Quest measures what it says it measures, and specifically is not already captured by the Intrinsic and Extrinsic subscales of religiousness. Therefore, it can be concluded that Quest Religious Orientation Scale have high reliability and valid measure for measuring inquisitiveness or curiosity of religiousness.

However, it is important to remember that Quest Scale has been developed in the context of North American universities. It will require transcultural equivalent to verify the psychometric properties of the Scale in new cultural settings. Future research may consider developing a transcultural equivalent of this scale for better psychometric properties.

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