How does one become spiritual? The Spiritual Modeling Inventory of Life Environments (SMILE)

Mental Health, Religion and Culture

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 427-456

  Oman, Doug ^a   Thoresen, Carl E ^b   Park, Crystal L ^c   Shaver, Phillip R ^d   Hood, Ralph W ^e   Plante, Thomas G ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE AT CHATTANOOGA   (United States)

^f SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Education; Health promotion; Measurement; Religion; Social cognitive theory; Spirituality; Validity

Indexed keywords

EID: 70449359228     PISSN: 13674676     EISSN: 14699737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13674670902758257     Document Type: Article

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