Appendix: The Recommended Version of the CROI
Below is included the 63-item, revised version of the CROI, which is the version of the CROI that
is recommended for use. I strongly recommend that the scale items be randomly mixed before
administration to participants. I recommend the items are responded to using a 5-, 7-, or 9-point format
ranging from "strongly disagree" to "strongly agree", with a clear midpoint being labeled either "unsure" or
"neither agree nor disagree". The items with an (-) in front of them are con-trait items that must be reversescored
before the total scale score is calculated.
I recommend the following set of instructions be used: "Even if you do not think of yourself as a
religious person, please answer each question as accurately as possible. For the rest of the questionnaire,
the term ,,religion refers to any form of personal religion, faith, or spirituality (for example, Christian,
Jewish, etc.). The term ,,church/synagogue refers to the type of place of worship that you would be most
likely to go to."
Scale
Item
NumberItem
Centrality 1 The meaning I give my life comes from religion.
Centrality 2 Religion is the driving force in my life.
Centrality 3 I find the purpose of my life in religion
Centrality 4 (-)Religion is NOT the most important thing in my life.
Centrality 5 (-)There are many things in my life that are more important than religion.
Centrality 6 (-)Religion is NOT a big part of my life.
Personal 1 (-)Prayer is NOT a very good way to seek guidance.
Personal 2 God comforts and shelters me.
Personal 3 (-)God might watch me, but he does NOT help me.
Personal 4 God protects me if I pray.
Personal 5 God helps me if I ask him.
Personal 6 (-)I do NOT turn to God more when I have problems.
Gain-R 1 If I become more faithful, God would improve my health.
Gain-R 2 Praying to God is a good way to help my career.
Gain-R 3 If I am faithful, God will help me be successful in life.
Gain-R 4 (-) God does NOT reward the faithful with improved health.
Gain-R 5 Prayer is a good way to get what I want.
Gain-R 6 (-) God would not improve my career if I became more faithful.
Punishment-R 1
I have obligations to God that if NOT respected will cause bad things to
happen to me.
Punishment-R 2 Bad things happen in life to those who do NOT worship God.
Punishment-R 3
Im scared that if I would NOT go to church/synagogue God would cause
something bad to happen.
Punishment-R 4 God would cause bad things to happen to me if I became less faithful.
Punishment-R 5 If I dont do certain things, God will cause bad things to happen to me.
Punishment-R 6 (-) Making fun of religion will NOT affect your health.
Social 1 If I go to church/synagogue it is to make friends.
Social 2 (-) I do NOT go to church/synagogue to make friends.
Social 3 Going to church/synagogue is very important because I can spend time with friends.
Social 4 If I go to church/synagogue it is because I enjoy seeing people I know there.
Social 5 If I go to church/synagogue it is to make and see friends.
Social 6 (-) If I go to church/synagogue it is NOT to see my friends.
Obligation-R 1 I feel a lot of pressure from my friends and family to go to religious services.
Obligation-R 2 My friends and family would be upset if I did NOT go to church/synagogue.
Obligation-R 3
I feel pressured because the important people in my life place more importance
on being religious than I do.
Obligation-R 4
My friends and family place much more importance than I do on going
to church/synagogue.
Obligation-R 5 (-) Nobody pressures me into being religious.
Obligation-R 6
(-) Nobody important in my life would be angry with me if they thought
I never went to church/synagogue.
Obligation-R 7
(-) I dont feel pressure to go to church/synagogue because important people
in my life go.
Obligation-R 8 (-) Important people in my life do not influence whether I go to church/synagogue.
Doubt 1 It can be good to doubt your beliefs about religion.
Doubt 2 It does NOT bother me when I have doubts about my beliefs about religion.
Doubt 3 (-) It is better to be sure about your religious beliefs than have some doubts.
Doubt 4 (-) I do NOT like to question my beliefs about religion.
Doubt 5 I value my doubts and uncertainties about religion.
Doubt 6 (-) It bothers me to question my beliefs about religion.
Doubt 7 For me, doubting is an important part of what it means to be religious.
Tentativeness 1 You can never know the complete truth about religious matters.
Tentativeness 2 You can never be sure if your beliefs about religion are correct.
Tentativeness 3 (-) Its easy to know whether my beliefs about religion are correct
Tentativeness 4 (-) Im sure my beliefs about religion are correct.
Tentativeness 5 Some of my beliefs about religions are probably wrong.
Tentativeness 6 (-) It is obvious that my beliefs about God are correct.
Dialog 1 I have reexamined my beliefs about religion when my life has changed.
Dialog 2 (-) My experiences have NOT changed my feelings toward religion.
Dialog 3 (-) My beliefs about religion did NOT change because of major events in my life.
Dialog 4
(-) Personal tragedies and hard times in my life have NOT changed how I
think about religion.
Dialog 5 My life experiences have made me reexamine my views on religion.
Dialog 6 (-) No event in my life changed how I think about religion.
Interest 1 (-)Im NOT very curious about religious theories.
Interest 2 I like to closely examine religious ideas.
Interest 3 I find religious discussions fascinating.
Interest 4 (-)I am NOT interested in theoretical discussions about religion.
Interest 5 I love to find out new things about religion
Interest 6 (-)I do NOT like to learn about religion.