8. Using psychology to investigate ideas of God

External links

• ‘Development and validation of the five-factor LAMBI measure of God representations’, Kathryn Johnson, Carissa Sharp et al. Psychology of Religion and Spirituality June 2019

• ‘Assessing spirituality on two dimensions: closeness to God and focal orientation’, Carissa Sharp and Kathryn Jonson, International Journal for the Psychology of Religion July 2019

eResources

• 8.1A LAMBI scale: 28 terms
• 8.1B LAMBI scale definitions
• 8.1C LAMBI scale categories and terms
• 'Whose Worldviews?' Free-to-use, interactive classroom resource developed by RE Today. Interactive version of 8.2A LAMBI Scale grid for ideas about God and automated function to display responses on a 'snowflake' chart. Select 'Ideas of God snowflake'.
• The ThEOS scale: exploring how people think about their relationship with God - PowerPoint presentation, which supports exercise F on page 23

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• 8.2A Psychology research into what people think about ‘God’: the LAMBI scale (page 24)

• 8.2B The LAMBI scale snowflake, presenting data visually (page 25)