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Assessing the affective dimension of religion within Muslim societies: the Sahin–Francis Scale of Attitude toward Islam, short form

Francis, Leslie J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2946-9980, Erken, Humeyra Guleryuz ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4207-9883 and Village, Andrew ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2174-8822 (2022) Assessing the affective dimension of religion within Muslim societies: the Sahin–Francis Scale of Attitude toward Islam, short form. Journal of Religious Education, 70 (2). pp. 135-146.

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Abstract

Abstract: This study developed and tested a Turkish translation of the 23-item Sahin–Francis Scale of Attitude toward Islam (containing six 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 seven-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.

Item Type: Article
Status: Published
DOI: 10.1007/s40839-022-00165-x
School/Department: School of Humanities
URI: https://ray.yorksj.ac.uk/id/eprint/6632

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