Assessing the affective dimension of religion within Muslim societies: The Sahin-Francis Scale of Attitude toward Islam, Short Form
Francis, L.J., Erken, H. G. and Village, A. (2022) Assessing the affective dimension of religion within Muslim societies: The Sahin-Francis Scale of Attitude toward Islam, Short Form. Journal of Religious Education. ISSN 1442-6200
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Abstract
This study developed and tested a Turkish translation of the 23-item Sahin-Francis Scale of Attitude toward Islam (containing 6 negatively-voiced items) on data provided by 493 participants (191 school students and 302 undergraduate students). Two research questions were tested on these data. First, exploratory factor analyses suggested that negatively-voiced items were not performing well and so confirmed the judgement against employing such items in Muslim societies. Second, reliability analyses identified the best performing items to propose a 7-item short form of the Sahin-Francis Scale of Attitude toward Islam. This measure displayed good properties of internal consistency reliability (α = .86) and of construct validity against a measure of prayer frequency.
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| Additional Information: | © 2022 Springer. This is an author-produced version of a paper accepted for publication in Journal of Religious Education. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
| Keywords: | religious affect Muslim students psychometrics Sahin-Francis Scale of Attitude toward Islam |
| Depositing User: | Ursula Mckenna |
| Date Deposited: | 27 May 2022 09:01 |
| Last Modified: | 19 Aug 2022 15:36 |
| URI: | https://bgro.repository.guildhe.ac.uk/id/eprint/955 |
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