Measuring Religious Attitudes in Secularized Western European Context: A Psychometric Analysis of the Post-Critical Belief Scale

Krysińska, Karolina; Roover, Kim De; Bouwens, Jan; Ceulemans, Eva; Corveleyn, Jozef; Dezutter, Jessie; Duriez, Bart; Hutsebaut, Dirk; Pollefeyt, Didier

doi:10.1080/10508619.2013.879429

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“…As a final remark, an attractive feature of the proposed approach is that its applicability, unlike the CFA based methods, largely surpasses the context of measurement invariance. Indeed, the approach can also be used when researchers do not have an a priori idea about the underlying structure of the items and about possible differences across groups (e.g., Krysinska et al, in press ). To this end, a standard SCA-P analysis (i.e., without clustering) is run on the data and the resulting component loadings—the “common component structure”—are used as the target structure toward which the cluster-specific loadings are rotated.…”

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What's hampering measurement invariance: detecting non-invariant items using clusterwise simultaneous component analysis

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The issue of measurement invariance is ubiquitous in the behavioral sciences nowadays as more and more studies yield multivariate multigroup data. When measurement invariance cannot be established across groups, this is often due to different loadings on only a few items. Within the multigroup CFA framework, methods have been proposed to trace such non-invariant items, but these methods have some disadvantages in that they require researchers to run a multitude of analyses and in that they imply assumptions that are often questionable. In this paper, we propose an alternative strategy which builds on clusterwise simultaneous component analysis (SCA). Clusterwise SCA, being an exploratory technique, assigns the groups under study to a few clusters based on differences and similarities in the component structure of the items, and thus based on the covariance matrices. Non-invariant items can then be traced by comparing the cluster-specific component loadings via congruence coefficients, which is far more parsimonious than comparing the component structure of all separate groups. In this paper we present a heuristic for this procedure. Afterwards, one can return to the multigroup CFA framework and check whether removing the non-invariant items or removing some of the equality restrictions for these items, yields satisfactory invariance test results. An empirical application concerning cross-cultural emotion data is used to demonstrate that this novel approach is useful and can co-exist with the traditional CFA approaches.

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“…If someone has a good religiosity, it indicates that person would have a good attitude. According to a study conducted by Krysinska et al 17 entitled "Measuring Religious Attitudes in Secularized Western European Context:A Psychometric Analysis of the PostCritical Belief Scale. ", that a generalized symbolic attitude might be correlated to the changes in the approaches to religion in secularized Western Europe.…”

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Determinant of Cash Waqf Nahdatul Ulama (Case of Muslim Students in Indonesia)

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Sakti

2018

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Determinant of Cash Waqf Nahdatul Ulama (Case of Muslim Students in Indonesia). Cash waqf is getting popular in some countries because of its flexibility. Due to that, Bank BTN is supporting the cash waqf through releasing an application called “Mobile Wakaf Uang NU BTN” which is able to be downloaded on App Store. This application is in cooperation with LWP-NU. The purpose of this study is to examine the determinant of cash waqf contribution among Muslim students through Mobile Wakaf Uang NU BTN. Attitude, Islamic religiosity, Islamic egalitarianism and perceived are used as independent variable and its intention of Muslim students in Indonesia to contribute to cash-waqf. The sample of this study are 115 Muslim students who applying Mobile Wakaf Uang NU BTN. This study employs Structural Equation Model (SEM) to verify the determinants of cash waqf contribution and the program used is Smart PLS. This study found that religiosity positively influence on attitude, Islamic egalitarianism, and behavioral intention. While, Islamic egalitarianism as a mediating variable positively influence on intention is rejected, because the p-value is more than 5% (0.05). Attitude as a mediating variable has a positive influence on intention and perceived ease of use is accepted and perceived ease of use toward intention has a positive influence. In addition, the interesting result of the study showed that the Islamic egalitarianism does not significantly affect on behavioral intention of Muslim students.

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“…This warrants mention in light of concerns that have been raised more recently about the generalizability of the PCBS (Krysinska et al. ) outside of its region of origin and within nonreligious populations. That is, because the PCBS was originally developed for use in the traditionally Roman Catholic region of Western Europe, additional research that sheds light on the scale and its underlying constructs within more secularized regions and populations would be especially informative.…”

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Post‐Critical Belief Scale and Scripture as Predictors of Prejudice

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Rubenstein

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Scientific Study of Religion

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Recent research has linked the strength of belief (transcendence) dimension of the Post-Critical Belief Scale (PCBS) and exposure to violent Bible verses to greater prejudice toward value-violating outgroups. Effects of exposure to specific Bible verses on attitudes toward outgroup members have not been measured in combination with the PCBS. The current study examined the two dimensions of the PCBS and exposure to scriptural endorsements of prejudice as predictors of prejudice toward value-violating outgroups. The strength of belief dimension of the PCBS was a significant predictor of attitudes toward atheists, gay men, lesbians, Christians, and highly religious people. Conversely, exposure to scriptural endorsements of prejudice toward atheists and gay individuals did not have a significant effect on levels of prejudice. Implications are discussed in terms of intergroup bias and the religious values conflict model.

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Measuring Religious Attitudes in Secularized Western European Context: A Psychometric Analysis of the Post-Critical Belief Scale

Cited by 15 publications

References 35 publications

What's hampering measurement invariance: detecting non-invariant items using clusterwise simultaneous component analysis

What's hampering measurement invariance: detecting non-invariant items using clusterwise simultaneous component analysis

Determinant of Cash Waqf Nahdatul Ulama (Case of Muslim Students in Indonesia)

Post‐Critical Belief Scale and Scripture as Predictors of Prejudice

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