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The Brief Multidimensional Measure of Religiousness/Spirituality (BMMRS) is a paper-pencil, self-report measure of different dimensions or facets of religiousness and spirituality (R/S) that was developed in 1999 by a US national working group of experts supported by the Fetzer Institute in collaboration with the US National Institute on Aging (NIA), part of the National Institutes of Health. The group’s primary mission was to develop items for assessing health-relevant domains of religiousness and spirituality. Thus, the measure was specifically designed for use in health outcomes and other health research. It contains 38 items across 11 dimensions with two additional meaning dimension items in an appendix.
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Research into the relations between religiousness and spirituality (R/S) and health outcomes has increased in recent years. Scholars from many different disciplines including psychology,...
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Masters, K.S. (2013). Brief Multidimensional Measure of Religiousness/Spirituality (BMMRS). In: Gellman, M.D., Turner, J.R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Behavioral Medicine. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1005-9_1577
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