2015年8月25日 · The Belief into Action Scale (BIAC) is a new scale developed in response to concerns that many religious measures only superficially assess the level of religiosity and often have ceiling effects in populations known to be highly religious (Blacks, other ethnic minorities, Middle Eastern groups, etc.) [2,3,4]. The BIAC was designed to increase ...

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The Belief into Action Scale (BIAC) [1] is a new scale developed in response to concerns that many religious measures only superficially assess the level of religiosity and often have ceiling effects in populations known to be highly religious (Blacks, other ethnic minorities, Middle Eastern groups, etc.) [2–4]. The BIAC was designed to ...

2015年8月25日 · We describe here a new measure of religious commitment, the Belief into Action (BIAC) scale. This measure was designed to be a comprehensive and sensitive measure of religious involvement that could discriminate individuals across the religious spectrum, and avoid the problem of ceiling effects that have haunted the study of highly-religious ...

2014年12月23日 · In response to this concern and the need to develop a measure capable of quantifying the full range of reli-gious involvement, we developed a 10-item Belief into Action (BIAC) scale composed of new items and those from existing scales, and expanded response options to increase sensitivity and variability (i.e., 1 to 10 for each item with a total...

In response to this concern and the need to develop a measure capable of quantifying the full range of religious involvement, we developed a 10-item Belief into Action (BIAC) scale composed of new items and those from existing scales, and expanded response options to increase sensitivity and variability (i.e., 1 to 10 for each item with a total ...

2015年1月22日 · Results suggest the BIAc has adequate convergent, divergent, and incremental validity compared to other well-established questionnaires and is appropriate for the inpatient setting. We describe here a new measure of religious …

2021年3月12日 · The 10-item Belief into Action (BIAc) scale was developed to quantify a full range of religious-related behaviors, increase sensitivity and variability, and overcome a ceiling effect often seen in other measures (Koenig et al., 2014). It was designed to discriminate levels of religious commitment capturing the three major dimensions of ...

2015年1月1日 · Methods: A convenience sample of female caregivers of those with chronic disabling illness, recruited from North Carolina and California, completed a questionnaire including a new 10-item scale...

2020年11月3日 · The Belief into Action (BIAC) Scale was designed to focus specifically on religiosity, including its cognitive and behavioral commitments, organizational activities with others, and private devotional activities. The BIAC determines the extent to which God is central to a person’s life above all other interests.