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This chapter introduces the concept of spirituality and its various facets which are highly correlated with other positive psychology constructs. It then focuses on various factors which are significantly correlated with spirituality. Various researches related to already existing scales on spirituality are documented. The procedure of development and validation of a new spirituality measure has been developed on Indian population. The Scale development is explained in detail with tune to the guidelines mentioned in Chap. 2. This chapter concludes with discussion centering on the newly developed scale and its elucidations.
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Singh, K., Junnarkar, M., Kaur, J. (2016). Spirituality and Its Assessment. In: Measures of Positive Psychology. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-3631-3_6
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