Quest religiosity is measurable through items endorsing doubt and questioning.
Evidence
This scale included items such as: “It might be said that I value my religious doubts and uncertainties.” “God wasn’t very important to me until I began to ask questions about the meaning of my own life.” “Questions are far more central to my religious experience than are answers.” — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 2546
Categorization
- CANDY: The Quest scale items are memorably counterintuitive for a religion measure — valuing doubts over answers inverts the usual framing of religious conviction.
- XREF: connects to: The instrument repeatedly tests limits of religious establishment with asymmetry questions — Andrew L. Whitehead; Samuel L. Perry, Taking America Back for God, 595