Spirituality and Religiosity as Cross-Cultural Aspects of Human Experience

Psychology of Religion and Spirituality

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 35-52

  Dy Liacco, Gabriel S ^a   Piedmont, Ralph L ^a   Murray Swank, Nichole A ^a   Rodgerson, Thomas E ^a   Sherman, Martin F ^a  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

cross cultural; incremental validity; personality; spirituality; structural equation modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 67650122569     PISSN: 19411022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0014937     Document Type: Article

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