English
The scale was developed as a measurement of the “quadrant of Wulff” – i.e. on one hand the dimension of belief versus non-belief in something transcendent and on the other the dimension of a concret versus a symbolic belief. The scale was developed in the nineties in Belgium by a unit under the leadership of Dirk Hutsebaut. Reliable studies have been made with this scale in Belgium during the last 15 years including a number of correlational studies. These have clearly shown that it is more often the concrete-symbolic scale which correlates with other positive qualities and situations in life. The scale is well qualified for use in Europe – at least from Belgium and downwards. Unfortunately the lix number is very high and one has to be good at foreign words to complete the English version of the test. Validated in Flemish and French.
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(Bart Duriez, Bart Soenens & Dirk Hutsebaut, “Introducing the shortened Post-Critical Belief Scale”).
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Danish
Skalaen er udviklet som en måling af “Wulffs kvadrant” – dvs til dimensionerne om tro versus ikke-tro på noget transcendent på den ene side og en konkret versus en symbolsk tro på den anden side. Skalaen er udviklet i 1990erne i Belgien af en gruppe under ledelse af Dirk Hutsebaut. Der er lavet solide undersøgelser med skalaen i Belgien gennem de sidste 15 år, bla. en del korrellationsstudier, hvor det klart er vist, at det oftest er skalaen konkret-symbolsk, der korrellerer med andre positive egenskaber og situationer i livet. Skalaen er velegnet i Europa – i hvert fald fra Belgien og ned. Desværre er lix-tallet meget højt, og man skal være god til fremmedord for at kunne gennemføre testen i dens engelske version. Valideret på flamsk og fransk.
Skalaen kan downloades her
(Bart Duriez, Bart Soenens & Dirk Hutsebaut, “Introducing the shortened Post-Critical Belief Scale”).
Skalaen i dansk oversættelse kan downloades her