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15: No matter how hard I try to please God, il doesnt seem to do me any

153.    Sometimes I think that not even God could love me. (A)*

154.    Sometimes I have nightmares about Ciod. (B)*

155.    God’s mercy is only for the chosen few. (B)

156.    I would have to be a lot better person to be surę of God s lovc. (A)*

Notations:

P - Prescnce subscale items C - Challenge subscale items A - Acceptance subscale items B - Benevolence subscale items 1 - Influence subscale items Pr - Pro\ idence subscale items F - Faith subscale items S - Salience subscale items

‘Denotes negatively worded item (reverse-scored)

Notę: The author has subsequently published a 72-item God Image Scalę. Lawrence, R. T. < 1997j ^ suring the image of God: The God Image Inventory and the God Image Scales. Journal of Psycholog _and Theology, 25(2), 214-226.

Reprinted with permission of author.

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LOYING AND CONTROLLING GOD SCALES (Benson & Spilka, 1973)

Revie\ved by Todd W. Hall and Randall Lehmann Sorenson

\dlidity: Benson and Spldku i¹ * _{> łs}iuvel> sell esicom to be, as predicud. l^H

Variable: The Loving and Controlling God scales measure two primary dimensions of God image: a loving God image and a controlling God image.

Description: Five parts of adjectives were used for the Loving God index: rejecting-accepting, !oving-hating, damning-saving. unforgiving-forgiving, and approving-disap-proving. Likewise, five pairs of adjectives were used for the Controlling God index: demanding-not demanding, freeing-restrict-ing, controlling-uncontrolling, strict-lenient, and permissive-rigid. Each of the 10 items is scored on a semantic differential scalę from 0 to 6; thus, scores for each scalę rangę from 0 to 30.

1‘raciical (onsiderutions: I his is self-ad ininislered papci and pcncil measure that u <juiit no spec ml examiner skill to admin islci ,coie, 01 mteipiel. No instruclions are

provided. The items for each scalę clearly relate to their respective God image scales.

Norms/Standardization: The sample con-sisted of 128 małe Catholic high school sub-jects. In order to obtain a homogeneous reli-gious sample, these subjects were drawn from an original sample of 205 małe subjects on the basis of eriteria such as having been a member of a local Catholic parish for at least the past ten years. The tinal sample consisted of the following educational dis-tribution: 44 freshmen, 31 sophomores, 1 juniors, and 34 seniors. The mean age tor the sample was 15.4 years.

Kcliability: Benson and Spilka 0^-j ^e^. amined scalę homogeneity on a ^salUl¹^

50 Lutheran subjects and found the ^ cients to be .72 for the Loving fi and .60 for the Controlling Clod ^scale'