Spiritual Occurrences and Spiritual Struggles Scale (SOSS) Test

People who want to examine how spiritual experience is organized across inner life, humanity, transcendence, God, and nature may use the Spiritual Occurrences and Spiritual Struggles Scale (SOSS) Test as a structured self-report. The questionnaire offers a spiritual self-assessment of experiential themes, helping readers compare dimensions without treating one result as a complete account of belief, identity, or wellbeing.

What This Assessment Explores

Rather than judging spirituality, this spiritual experiences questionnaire describes inner experience and connection. Readers can examine these themes. Although its registered name includes Spiritual Struggles, this version assesses spiritual occurrences across displayed dimensions; no separate struggles scale is shown.

• Selfhood (4-20) reflects self-integration and inner harmony: Lower self-integration (4-9), Moderate self-integration (10-14), Higher self-integration (15-20); inclusion may depend on study objectives.
• Humanity (3-15) reflects spiritual unity with humanity, closely related to global social identification: Low (3-6), Moderate (7-11), High (12-15).
• Transcendence (4-20) reflects belief in supernatural phenomena and propensity for beyond-ordinary spiritual experiences: Low (4-9), Moderate (10-15), High (16-20).
• God (4-20) reflects religious spirituality and intensity of spiritual experiences associated with God or a higher being: Low (4-9), Moderate (10-14), High (15-20).
• Nature (3-15) reflects nature-related spiritual experiences and connection with the natural world: Low (3-7), Moderate (8-11), High (12-15).

Methodology and Scientific Basis

Each statement uses a five-point agreement format with the displayed endpoints Strongly disagree and Strongly agree; item 16 uses Completely agree. Items address felt presence, closeness, connection, unity, authenticity, wholeness, and experiences described as infinite or beyond words. The questionnaire produces a profile across the displayed dimensions, allowing a focused spirituality assessment through the reported ranges and bands.

Its five occurrence dimensions are conceptually consistent with the published Sources of Spirituality Scale, which documents comparable domains; that relationship does not establish that the online questionnaire is an adaptation of that instrument or validate this exact version. Related trait and cross-cultural research offers context, not validation of this online version.

Interpret the profile as endorsed experiences, not a rank of spiritual worth. The bands are descriptive; no population norms, diagnostic thresholds, or clinical validation are stated for this online version. Memory, current context, spiritual language, self-awareness, and willingness to endorse unusual experiences may influence responses, so use the result for focused self-reflection.