Dispositional Awe Scale
PsychologyReliability: alpha 0.823 sample items
About this scale
A multi-item measure of dispositional propensity to experience awe — feeling small in the presence of vastness that requires cognitive accommodation.
Sample item(s)
“I often feel awe”
“I see beauty all around me”
“I feel wonder almost every day”
Reliability
Reported internal consistency: alpha 0.82. As a rule of thumb, Cronbach’s α ≥ .70 is considered acceptable, ≥ .80 good, and ≥ .90 excellent for established measures.
Notes
Foundational awe framework.
Source & citation
Keltner, D., & Haidt, J. (2003): Approaching awe, a moral, spiritual, and aesthetic emotion. Cognition and Emotion, Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 297–314.
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