Consulting a Healer: A Theory of Planned Behavior Dataset on Spiritual Identity and Alternative-Medicine Intentions

Dataset overview This dataset contains data from a quantitative survey conducted in France in March 2018 (N = 514) on consulting a healer (“guérisseur”). The questionnaire was developed within the framework of the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) and includes, alongside the standard TPB constructs, spiritual-identity indicators, expected benefits and perceived barriers, and intentions to use alternative or complementary medicine practices.” The dataset contains 49 variables covering past healer-consultation behavior (frequency and recency), behavioral intention, attitude, perceived behavioral control, descriptive and injunctive norms, four spiritual-identity indicators, seven expected-benefit beliefs, six perceived barriers, and intentions to use nine forms of alternative or complementary medicine. It also includes sociodemographic variables, information sources, open-text responses, and questionnaire completion time. Most scale-based items use seven response categories. The combination of past healer-consultation behavior, spiritual-identity indicators, and intentions concerning alternative medicine makes the dataset suitable for studying cross-domain behavioral associations and candidate mechanisms relevant to research on behavioral consistency and spillover. Because the survey is cross-sectional and does not manipulate an initial behavior or observe subsequent behavior longitudinally, the data should not be interpreted as demonstrating causal behavioral spillover. They can instead be used to investigate cross-domain associations, common antecedents, candidate mechanisms, and hypotheses for subsequent longitudinal or experimental research. Documentation and reuse This version adds an English-language codebook documenting the 49 variables, their conceptual blocks, questionnaire wording, response formats, coding, and interpretation. The data and codebook can be reused for research on the Theory of Planned Behavior, spiritual identity, healer consultation, alternative medicine, behavioral consistency and spillover methodology, as well as for teaching quantitative survey methods and psychometric analysis. Data were collected using a convenience/network sampling strategy. The sample should therefore not be interpreted as representative of the French population. Data collection: March 2018, France.Sample size: N = 514.License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).