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Temporal Stability of the Francis Scale of Attitude Toward Christianity Short-Form Among 10- To 12-Year-Old English Children: Test-Retest Data Over 15 Weeks

Temporal Stability of the Francis Scale of Attitude Toward Christianity Short-Form Among 10- To... Archive for the psycholog y of Religion 29 (2007) 259-267 www.brill.nl/arp © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2007 DOI: 10.1163/008467207X188856 Temporal Stability of the Francis Scale of Attitude Toward Christianity Short-Form Among 10- To 12-Year-Old English Children: Test-Retest Data Over 15 Weeks Christopher Alan Lewis and Sharon Mary Cruise, 1 Bill Lattimer 2 1 University of Ulster at Magee College, Londonderry, Northern Ireland 2 Christian Research, London, England Abstract Recently three studies have reported on the test-retest reliability of the Francis Scale of Attitude toward Christianity; however, these studies were limited to comparatively small samples ( N s = 39, 114, 58). Th e present study examined the temporal stability of the 7-item version of the Francis Scale of Attitude toward Christianity over a 15-week period among a sample of 581 English chil- dren aged between 10 and 12 years. Data demonstrated that stability across the two administrations was very high ( r = .79); however, there was a significant change in mean scores between Time 1 and Time 2. Keywords Religion, attitude toward Christianity, children, temporal stability, internal consistency reliability. Over the last 25 years there have been more than 200 published studies examin- ing the measurement, correlates, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Archive for the Psychology of Religion Brill

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Archive for the psycholog y of Religion 29 (2007) 259-267 www.brill.nl/arp © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2007 DOI: 10.1163/008467207X188856 Temporal Stability of the Francis Scale of Attitude Toward Christianity Short-Form Among 10- To 12-Year-Old English Children: Test-Retest Data Over 15 Weeks Christopher Alan Lewis and Sharon Mary Cruise, 1 Bill Lattimer 2 1 University of Ulster at Magee College, Londonderry, Northern Ireland 2 Christian Research, London, England Abstract Recently three studies have reported on the test-retest reliability of the Francis Scale of Attitude toward Christianity; however, these studies were limited to comparatively small samples ( N s = 39, 114, 58). Th e present study examined the temporal stability of the 7-item version of the Francis Scale of Attitude toward Christianity over a 15-week period among a sample of 581 English chil- dren aged between 10 and 12 years. Data demonstrated that stability across the two administrations was very high ( r = .79); however, there was a significant change in mean scores between Time 1 and Time 2. Keywords Religion, attitude toward Christianity, children, temporal stability, internal consistency reliability. Over the last 25 years there have been more than 200 published studies examin- ing the measurement, correlates,

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Published: Jan 1, 2007

Keywords: TEMPORAL STABILITY; ATTITUDE TOWARD CHRISTIANITY; RELIGION; CHILDREN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY RELIABILITY

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