Survey Process Flow

Spiritual Fitness Metrics
Items selected out of test pool Items

72 Items Held
Item
Constant:
Demographics
(6 items)
Relationship
(2 items)
Religious Affiliation
(9 items)
God Image
(8 items)
Stress
(12 items)
Construct Validity
Meaning in life
(5 items)
Resilience
(6 items)
Negative Outcomes
(10 items)
Human Flourishing
(11 items)
Careless
Responding Checks
(3 items)
Atheists will have
68 items held
constant
Changes:
Demographics
(2 item increase)
God Image
(6 item decrease)

Spiritual Fitness
Samples 1-9 (Vertical,
Horizontal, Mixed)

mTurk

Readability
Sample 10

mTurk

Construct Validity
Samples 11-14
(Outcomes added)

Spiritual Fitness
Nationally Representative
Population (Sample 15)
with validated measure
from Sample 14

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& Evaluate

mTurk

Qualtrics

1 Version

12
Versions*

1 Version
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Assess Factor Structure

Is the measure’s factor structure
consistent with other samplings?

No

Spiritual Fitness
Nationally Representative
Population (Sample 16)

19
Versions*

Yes

Validated/Normed
Spiritual Fitness measure

Qualtrics

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1 Version

Assess Factor Structure

Validated/Normed
Spiritual Fitness measure
* = Multiple versions of the survey within the samples. The different survey versions are: a civilian theist version, a civilian
atheist version, and a service member version. Respondents are filtered into the appropriate version based on their responses
to specific demographic and religious affiliation questions that are in the beginning of the survey. Within each version, there are
additional filter questions to further tailor which items are given (e.g., for service members: (1) receiving combat exposure
questions for those who reported prior deployment, (2) receiving more horizontal transcendence items and less vertical items if
they are an atheist). The outcome indicators remain consistent in each version (see the upper left box) for Samples 1-9. Only one
version of the survey will be given in Sample 10 and the Nationally Representative Samples (Sample 15 and Sample 16).