The Utrecht-Management of Identity Commitments Scale (U-MICS)

The current study proposed the adaptation of the Utrecht-Management of Identity Commitments Scale (U-MICS) to the religious\r\ndomain as an instrument to measure both individuals’ religious identity formation processes (when a variable-centered approach is adopted)\r\nand religious identity statuses (when a person-centered approach is adopted). The scale has been tested on a sample of 727 Italian\r\nparticipants aged 13–65 years, by collecting evidence of score structure, convergent, and criterion-related validity. Regarding the score\r\nstructure validity, we confirmed that religious identity formation consists of three processes (commitment, in-depth exploration,\r\nreconsideration of commitment) and that, by using these scores, individuals can be placed into five different religious identity clusters\r\n(achievement, diffusion, foreclosure, moratorium, searching moratorium). As to the convergent and criterion-related validity, we tested the\r\nrelationship that the three factors (religious identity formation processes) and the five clusters (religious identity statuses) have with\r\nreligiousness and subjective well-being, respectively. Results indicate that the instrument is a promising tool to measure religious identity.\r\nFuture studies should test this scale in other countries and with people from diverse religious traditions.