Échelle "M" de Hood (1975)

Annexe 1 aux

Éléments psychologiques de l’expérience mystique

(réflexion et états des études empiriques et phénoménologiques)

1. I have had an experience which was both timeless and spaceless.

2. I have never had an experience which was incapable of being expressed in words.

3. I have had an experience in which something greater than myself seemed to absorb me.

4. I have had an experience in which everything seems to disappear from my mind until I was conscious only of a void.

5. I have experienced profound joy.

6. I have never had an experience in which I felt myself to be absorbed as one with all things.

7. I have never experienced a perfectly peaceful state.

8. I have never had an experience in which I felt as if all thing were alive.

9. I have never had an experience which seemed holy to me.

10. I have never had an experience in which all thing seemed to be aware.

11. I have had an experience in which I had no sense of time and space.

12. I have had an experience in which I realized the oneness of myself with all things.

13. I have had an experience in which a new view of reality was revealed to me.

14. I have never experienced anything to be divine.

15. I have never had an experience in which time and space were non-existent,

16. I have never experienced anything that I would call ultimate reality.

17. I have had an experience in which ultimate reality was revealed to me.

18. I have had an experience in which I felt that all was perfection at the time.

19. I have had an experience in which I felt everything in the world to be part of the same whole.

20. I have had an experience which I knew to be sacred.

21. I have never had an experience which I was unable to express adequately through language.

22. I have had an experience which left me with a feeling of awe.

23. I have had an experience that is impossible to communicate.

24. I have never had an experience in which my own self seemed to merge into something greater.

25. I have never had an experience which left me with feeling of wonder.

26. I have never had an experience in which deeper aspects of reality were revealed to me.

27. I have never had an experience in which time, place and distance where meaningless.

28. I have never had an experience in which I became aware of a unity to all things.

29. I have had an experience in which all things seemed to be conscious.

30. I have never had an experience in which all thing seemed to be unified into a single whole.

31. I have had an experience in which I felt that nothing is ever really dead.

32. I have had an experience that cannot be expressed in words.

Noter chaque questions (si décision vraiment impossible, mettre un « ? »)

-2 : this description is definitely not true to my own experience or experiences.

-1 : This description is probably not true of my own experience or experiences.

+1 : This description is probably true of my own experience or experiences.

+2 : This description is definitely true of my own experience or experiences.

Calcul : Renverser la réponse aux questions négatives, puis ajouter +3 à toutes les notes (?=3). Le score varie donc de 32 à 160. Moyenne (hommes/femmes): Hood (1975) = 109,3/119,4 [ET= 22,6/18,8] F1=66,4 (ET=15,6), F2=48,6 (ET=8,7). Caird (1988) = 120,67 [ET= 21,47]. Reinert et Stifler (1993) [pop. « Normal »] F1= 58,87 (ET=7,57), F2=30,60 (ET=4,15), F3=17,83 (ET=2,17).

Annexe 2

Tableau comparatif des éléments constitutifs de diverses analyses factorielles de l’échelle-M à 2 et 3 facteurs.

ÉCHELLE-M

Hood 1975

Caird (1988)

Reinert et Stifler 1993

Hood (1993)

1

2

1

2

1

2

3

1

2

1

2

3

1

2

3

Ego

3

*

*

*

+

*

+

+

4

*

*

+

*

+

+

6

*

*

+

*

+

+

24

*

*

*

+

*

+

+

Unification

12

*

*

+

*

+

+

19

*

*

+

*

+

+

28

*

*

+

*

+

+

30

*

*

+

*

+

+

Subjectivité interne

8

*

*

+

*

+

+

10

*

*

+

+

*

+

+

29

*

*

+

*

+

+

31

*

*

+

*

+

+

Perception spatio-temporelle

1

*

*

+

*

*

+

+

+

11

*

*

+

*

+

+

15

*

*

+

*

+

+

27

*

*

+

*

+

+

Qualité noétique

13

*

*

+

*

+

+

16

*

*

+

*

*

+

+

+

17

*

*

+

*

+

+

26

*

*

+

*

+

+

Caractère Ineffable

2

*

*

+

+

21

*

*

+

*

+

+

23

*

*

*

+

+

32

*

*

+

*

+

+

Affect positif

5

*

*

*

+

7

*

+

+

+

18

*

*

+

*

+

+

25

*

*

+

*

+

+

Qualité religieuse

9

*

*

+

*

+

+

14

*

*

+

*

+

+

20

*

*

+

+

*

*

+

+

22

*

*

*

+

+

Notes : Hood (1975) : 1= general mysticism, 2= religious interpretation; Caird (1988) : 1= unitary mystical experience 2= interpretative mystical experience (2= noetic interpretation, 3=religious interpretation); Reinert & Stifler (1993) : 1= unitary, 2= interpretative (2= noetic/ineffability, 3= religious). Hood (1993) : 1= extovertive mysticism, 2= religious interpretation, 3= introvertive mysticism.

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