This paper presents the development and validation of a spiritual leadership
measure comprising three sequential stages of scale development. Stage 1 built
content validity into the measure through content analysis of interview data,
extant literature review, and content expert item analysis. Stage 2 established
reliability and preliminary construct validity based on the confirmatory factor
analysis of pre-test data. Finally, Stage 3 provided further construct validity
through cross-validation in a new sample. The resulting four-item spiritual
leadership scale demonstrated robust preliminary psychometric properties. The
contributions and implications of the present studies, as well as some future
research directions, are discussed in the concluding section.