Associations between religious behavior and attitude to Christianity amongAustralian Catholic adolescents: Scale validation

Authors
Dorman, JP
Citation
Jp. Dorman, Associations between religious behavior and attitude to Christianity amongAustralian Catholic adolescents: Scale validation, J SOC PSYCH, 141(5), 2001, pp. 629-639
Citations number
30
Categorie Soggetti
Psycology
Journal title
JOURNAL OF SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
ISSN journal
00224545 → ACNP
Volume
141
Issue
5
Year of publication
2001
Pages
629 - 639
Database
ISI
SICI code
0022-4545(200110)141:5<629:ABRBAA>2.0.ZU;2-D
Abstract
In a sample of 1,166 Catholic high school students (age = 13-18 years), the author used confirmatory factor analysis to validate a 30-item instrument that assesses 6 dimensions of attitude to Christianity (viz., attitude to p rayer, attitude to God, attitude to Jesus, attitude to the Bible, attitude to Christian practice, attitude to social justice). Goodness-of-fit indices for the proposed measurement model revealed that the model fitted the data very well, thus confirming the instrument's structure. A correlation analy sis revealed associations between religious behavior and attitude to Christ ianity.