Development of Spiritual Orientation Scale: The Study Of Validity and

The objective of the study is to develop a Spiritual Orientation Scale, which is to be utilized to evaluate spiritual orientation of individuals. 872 university students (492 females and 380 males) participated in the study to develop the scale. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses were conducted to test the structural validity of the spiritual orientation scale. It was determined that the scale was consisted of one factor that explained 47.59 % of the total variance, and the fit indices of the model represented by one dimension were χ2=239.718, sd=100, p= .000, χ2/ sd= 2.39, RMSEA=0.06, RMR= 0.05, GFI=0.93, AGFI=0.90, CFI=0.95, IFI=0.95, NFI=0.92. Thus, a 7 point Likert-type scale with 16 items was created. 277 university students (172 females and 105 males) participated in content validity and reliability studies for the scale. Similar scales validity, correlation was found as r = .57 p< .01. Reliability of the scale was assessed using two methods: The first was Cronbach alpha coefficient (Alpha = .87); and the second was test-retest reliability coefficient (r = .84). These findings demonstrated that the scale was a valid and reliable measurement tool.