Development of the Korean Version of the Religious and Spiritual Struggles Scale: Factor Structure, Reliability, and Validity

Key Points

• The aim is to adapt the Religious and Spiritual Struggles Scale (RSS) into Korean and to validate its factor structure, reliability, and validity in Korean adults.
• Sample size of 500 Korean adults
• Conducted exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses
• Analyzed correlations and regression with related psychological variables
• Identified a 5-factor structure: conflict with evil spirits, moral conflict, interpersonal conflict, ultimate meaning conflict, and transcendent belief conflict.
• The integration of sacred conflict and faith doubt into the transcendent belief conflict category was confirmed.
• Demonstrated convergent and discriminant validity with psychological variables.