The Daily Spiritual Experience Scale: Empirical Relationships to Resiliency-Related Outcomes, Addictions, and Interventions

The Daily Spiritual Experience Scale (DSES) is a 16-item self-report measure designed to assess set of experiences that may occur in the context daily life for many different kinds people. These include awe, merciful attitude, giving other-centered love, deep inner peace, finding strength, guidance, or consolation from transcendent source, among others. DSES includes theistic and non-theistic language alternatives, has proven useful those religions unaffiliated. Since its original publication, it been translated into over 40 languages, used hundreds published studies, adopted use practical settings. Empirically, predicts greater resilience, stress buffering, post-traumatic growth, sense meaning face illness, trauma, stressors, as well less substance abuse burnout. Intervention studies using show variety interventions can increase frequency these experiences. In this article, we will provide brief overview scale review empirical literature with respect resilience related outcomes. Findings suggest measured by serve resource experiencing distress various kinds.