Original scientific paper
A Short Scale of Religiousness: Validation on a Sample of Adolescents
Petar BEZINOVIĆ
Ankica MARINOVIĆ-BOBINAC
Dinka MARINOVIĆ JEROLIMOV
Abstract
Although there have been many examples of sociological
research of religiousness and unreligiousness in Croatia
conducted since the late 1960s, religiousness as a
psychological phenomenon in Croatian circumstances has
not been particularly explored. As a result, there is not much
data in such research about the developmental aspects of
religiousness on the level of the individual, nor about the
connection with other personality traits and individual
behaviour. Furthermore, in research carried out in Croatia,
psychometric characteristics of the instruments used are
mostly unknown, thus making the authors rely on the
obvious validity of the applied procedure. In this paper the
authors present the procedure of developing a short scale of
religiousness (KLR). The scale consists of five statements with
the help of which somewhat different aspects of religious
cognition are examined. Validation of the scale has been
carried out on a sample of 3678 adolescents aged 15 to 19
- students of all secondary schools in the Primorsko-
Goranska and Dubrova~ko-Neretvanska counties. Internal
consistency of the scale is .88. Its validity has been checked
by comparison with the existing procedures and by
determining the scale's discriminativeness on specific
subsamples. With regard to its characteristics, this scale can
be used as a reliable and valid indicator of religiousness in
Croatian language circumstances.
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Hrčak ID:
16262
URI
Publication date:
30.4.2005.
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