Spiritual dryness among people with different levels of religious commitment. Polish adaptation of the spiritual dryness scale: psychometric properties and measurement invariance - JACEK PRUSAK (Autor); Jakub Wasiewicz (Autor); Wiktor Potoczny (Autor) (2023)
10.1080/13617672.2023.2228157
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Spiritual dryness, understood as a type of divine struggle, is the feeling that God is distant or absent, no matter how much one tries to approach him. Spiritual dryness is concurrent with symptoms of depression, job burnout, stress, and experiencing negative emotions. The purpose of this article was to present the psychometric properties of the Polish version of the Spiritual Dryness Scale (SDS) and the measurement equivalence of this tool for people involved and not involved in religious practices. Two groups of respondents (184 religiously committed and 199 uncommitted people) participated in the study. The results of the confirmatory factor analyses showed that this tool has a unidimensional. The measurement equivalence analysis conducted may suggest that, for those engaged in religious practices, the feeling of being completely abandoned by God and distanced from him despite efforts to get closer to him is a stronger descriptor of spiritual dryness.
Keywords: psychologia