The spiritual capital scale: development and psychometric properties

Spirituality is among the most important influential factors in promotion of health. there is a particular emphasis on the effect of spirituality on physical and mental health in islam. spiritual capital is one of the latest constructs in spirituality. this study aims to development and concurrently validate the spiritual capital scale with spiritual well-being scale. in this development and validation study, statistical population consisted of employees of two companies working in the city of isfahan, of whom, 277 were selected through stratified random sampling method. study tools included a researcher-developmented spiritual capital scale and gomez & fisher spiritual well-being scale. data were analyzed using exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses, reliability coefficient (cronbach's alpha), and pearson correlation coefficient. the researcher-developmented 20-item spiritual capital scale contains 4 factors of attachment to god (8 items), spiritual value (4 items), spiritual influence (4 items), and transcendental relationship with god (4 items); with cronbach's alpha for these factors as 0.9, 0.76, 0.65, and 0.83, respectively. the present study results showed a positive and significant correlation between components of spiritual capital scale and three domains of spiritual well-being (personal, environmental, and transcendental domains) as evidence of convergent validity of spiritual capital scale. results also confirmed favorable status of reliability and validity of spiritual capital scale. thus, this scale can be used in future studies to measure spirituality.