ABSTRACT

Spiritual dryness, understood as a type of divine struggle, is the feeling that God is distant or absent, no matter how much one tries to approach him. Spiritual dryness is concurrent with symptoms of depression, job burnout, stress, and experiencing negative emotions. The purpose of this article was to present the psychometric properties of the Polish version of the Spiritual Dryness Scale (SDS) and the measurement equivalence of this tool for people involved and not involved in religious practices. Two groups of respondents (184 religiously committed and 199 uncommitted people) participated in the study. The results of the confirmatory factor analyses showed that this tool has a unidimensional. The measurement equivalence analysis conducted may suggest that, for those engaged in religious practices, the feeling of being completely abandoned by God and distanced from him despite efforts to get closer to him is a stronger descriptor of spiritual dryness.

摘要

灵性干涸，被理解为一种神圣的斗争，是一种感觉，无论人如何努力接近上帝，上帝都是遥远的或缺席的。精神枯竭与抑郁、工作倦怠、压力和经历负面情绪的症状同时发生。本文的目的是介绍波兰版精神干燥量表 (SDS) 的心理测量特性，以及该工具对于参与和不参与宗教活动的人的测量等效性。两组受访者（184 名虔诚的宗教人士和 199 名不虔诚的人）参与了这项研究。验证性因素分析结果表明该工具具有一维性。进行的测量等价分析可能表明，对于那些从事宗教活动的人来说，