The Scale of Spiritual Transcendence: Construction and validation

This paper presents the construction of the Scale of Spiritual Transcendence (STD), which is based on Ralph Piedmont’s conception of spiritual transcendence. Piedmont defined it as the ability to transcend a direct sense of time and place and to perceive life from a broader, more objective perspective. The obtained measure is characterized by good psychometric parameters. In the validation process (N = 1859), the relations of the Scale of Spiritual Transcendence (the global result and two main subscales) with existing measures of social approval, religiosity and spirituality, materialism, and personality traits were tested. The presented scale could be implemented in experimental and correlational studies in this field. It is designed for studies on populations above the age of 16.