Title
Temporal stability of the Francis Scale of Attitude Toward Christianity among 9- to 11-year-old English children: Test-retest data over six weeks
Abstract
Recently two studies have reported on the test-retest reliability of the Francis Scale of Attitude toward Christianity; however, these studies were limited to samples of university students. This study examined the temporal stability of both the 24- and 7-item versions of the junior version of the Francis Scale of Attitude toward Christianity (Francis, 1978; Francis, Greer, & Gibson, 1991) over a six-week period among a sample of 58 English children aged between 9 and 11 years old. Data demonstrated that stability across the two administrations was very high for both the 24- (r=.74) and 7-item (r=.67) versions, and there was no significant change between Time 1 and Time 2 for either version. These data support the short-term test-retest reliability of both the 24- and 7-item versions of the junior version of the Francis Scale of Attitude toward Christianity among children.
Disciplines
Psychology
Recommended Citation
Lewis, C.A., Cruise, S.M., McGuckin, C., & Francis, L.J (2006)‘Temporal stability of the Francis Scale of Attitude Toward Christianity among 9- to 11-year-old English children: Test-retest data over six weeks’..Social Behavior and Personality, 34(9), 1081-1086
Digital Commons Citation
Lewis, Christopher A.; Cruise, S M.; McGuckin, C; and Francis, L J., "Temporal stability of the Francis Scale of Attitude Toward Christianity among 9- to 11-year-old English children: Test-retest data over six weeks" (2006). Psychology. Paper 30.
http://epubs.glyndwr.ac.uk/psyc/30
Comments
This article was published in the Social Behavior and personality Society for Personality Research in 2006. The published journal website is available at http://www.sbp-journal.com/Contact the author via email at - ca.lewis@glyndwr.ac.uk for information about this article.