Religiosity, Personality, and Happiness: A Study among Israeli Male Undergraduates

Psychometric Properties of Two Islamic Measures among Young Adults in Kuwait: The Sahin-Francis Scale of Attitude toward Islam and the Sahin Index of Islamic Moral Values

“…For example, the Francis Scale of Attitude toward Christianity has been employed alongside a number of measures concerned with assessing constructs such as: alcohol related attitudes (Francis, Fearn, & Lewis, 2005), conservatism (Lewis & Maltby, 2000), creationism (Fulljames & Francis, 2003), dissociation (Dorahy & Lewis, 2001), dogmatism (Francis, 2001), gender orientation (Francis, 2005), happiness (Francis, Jones, & Wilcox, 2000), life satisfaction (Lewis, 1998), paranormal belief (Williams, Francis, & Robbins, 2006), pro-social values (Schludermann, Schludermann, & Huynh, 2000), psychological balanced affect (Francis, Jones and Wilcox, 1997), psychological distress (O"Connor, Cobb, & O"Connor, 2003) psychological health (Francis, Lewis & Ng, 2003), purpose in life (French & Joseph, 1999), religious experience (Francis, ap Sion, Lewis, Robbins, & Barnes, 2006) and schizotypal traits (Joseph & Diduca, 2001). (Francis & Katz, 2002Francis, Katz, Yablon, & Robbins, 2004). The Santosh-Francis Scale of Attitude toward Hinduism has, for example, been used to test whether a similar relationship between religion and personality exists in a Hindu context as in a Christian context (Francis, Santosh, Robbins, & Bhanot, in press; Francis, Robbins, Santosh, & Bhanot, in press).…”

Marriage, religion and human flourishing: how sustainable is the classic Durkheim thesis in contemporary Europe?

“…The slightly religious respondents were less happy than either the very religious or the antireligious ones. Reanalysing data from the 1984 National Opinion Research Centre Survey, Reed (1991) A series of more sophisticated recent studies have examined the association between religion and happiness as assessed by the Oxford Happiness Inventory (Argyle, Martin, & Crossland, 1989), including Francis (1996), Francis andLester (1997), Francis and Robbins (2000), Francis, Jones, and Wilcox (2000), Francis, Robbins, and White (2003), Francis and Katz (2002) and Francis, Katz, Yablon, and Robbins (2004). Each of these studies has demonstrated a positive correlation between religiosity and happiness scores.…”

The Affective Dimension of Religion and Personal Happiness Among Students in Estonia

“…In the first study among 298 female students, Francis and Katz (2002) reported a beta weight of +.11 (p<.05) after controlling for personality. In the second study among 203 male students, Francis, Katz, Yablon, and Robbins (2004) reported a positive correlation ( r = .23, p <.001).…”