Daily Spiritual Experience Scale

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The Daily Spiritual Experience Scale, created by Dr. Lynn Underwood, is being used in many studies. This page will serve as a central information site regarding the scale and its use.

Contact Lynn Underwood at lynnunderwood@researchintegration.org

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Daily Spiritual Experience Scale: a pdf version of the scale available for download.

"Ordinary Spiritual Experience: Qualitative Research, Interpretive Guidelines, and Population Distribution for the Daily Spiritual Experience Scale," is designed to help scholars understand, use and score the DSES. Archive for the Psychology of Religion/Archiv fuer Religionspsychologie, 28:1 (2006), 181-218.

"Interviews with Trappist Monks as a Contribution to Research Methodology in the Investigation of Compassionate Love."  Journal for the Theory of Social Behavior, 35:3(285-302), September 2005.

"The Daily Spiritual Experience Scale: Development, Theoretical Description, Reliability, Exploratory Factor Analysis, and Preliminary Construct Validity Using Health-Related Data" , an article in the Annals of Behavioral Medicine by Underwood and Teresi describes its psychometric qualities and some of its applications.

Closely related to the DSES work is an article by Dr. Underwood on the place of spirituality and religiousness in an inclusive concept of health: "A Working Model of Health: Spirituality and Religiousness as Resources: Applications to Persons with Disabilities"

A list of published studies using the DSES.

A Spanish language version has also been developed.

Visit an on-line research project using a French language version of the DSES.

Also an on-line research project using a Vietnamese language version of the DSES.