The Sahin-Francis Scale of Attitude towards Islam: A Study among Students in Pakistan

Recent years have seen growing interest in empirical religious research within the Islamic context. This paper contributes to that growth by exploring the reliability of the Sahin-Francis Scale of Attitude toward Islam. The scale is a 23-item instrument which measures attitudes toward Islam on a 5-p...

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Published in:Journal of empirical theology
Authors: Hamid, Sahar Nadeem (Author) ; Robbins, Mandy (Author) ; Nadeem, Tania (Author)
Contributors: Khan, Ziasma (Other)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2016
In: Journal of empirical theology
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Pakistan / Islam / Religiosity / Assessment / Skala
RelBib Classification:AE Psychology of religion
BJ Islam
KBM Asia
Further subjects:B Sahin-Francis Scale Islam reliability Pakistan
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Summary:Recent years have seen growing interest in empirical religious research within the Islamic context. This paper contributes to that growth by exploring the reliability of the Sahin-Francis Scale of Attitude toward Islam. The scale is a 23-item instrument which measures attitudes toward Islam on a 5-point Likert scale. A total of 729 English speaking Pakistani young people (45% male and 55% female) completed the fscai. The data demonstrated that the scale is a reliable measure achieving a Cronbach Alpha of .91 and accounting for 37.4% of the variance. The measure is recommended for further research in the Muslim context.
ISSN:1570-9256
Contains:In: Journal of empirical theology
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/15709256-12341342