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  Assessment name:   Religious Belief Salience (RBS) Scale overview: The Religious Belief Salience measure is a five-item measure of religiosity. Blaine and Crocker adapted an older scale developed by King and Hunt (Religiosity Salience-Cognition Scale, 1975) by removing three items. Authors: Bruce Blaine and Jennifer Crocker Response Type: A 7-point rating scale of agreement: 1 = strongly disagree, 7 = strongly agree Scale items The items include references to religious beliefs and a meaningful life, the influence of religious beliefs on one’s life, and the personal importance of religion. Psychometric properties Cronbach’s Alpha = .94 Means and Standard Deviations are included for the sample of American undergraduates. The RBS was positively correlated with measures of Satisfaction with Life and Wellbeing and negatively correlated with measures of Depression and Hopelessness. The correlations were significant.   Availability: The full set of items are i

  Assessment name:   Scale of Religious Cultural Consonance Scale overview: The Scale of Religious Cultural Consonance is a 27-item measure of the cultural expectations of a religious group. Respondents indicate their self-rating on a 4-point scale, which will result in a measure of consonance with the cultural expectations. In the study, the list reflected expectations of Brazilian Pentecostals. Author: H.J. François Dengah II Response Type and item content: The response types are 4-point ratings with different anchors appropriate to the item content. Items 1- 16: A scale of agreement with descriptions of religious life Items 17 – 25 a scale of frequency of religious practices Item 26 a scale of activeness in church Item 27 a scale of strength of testimony Psychometric properties The article includes basic descriptive statistics of means and standard deviations. Cronbach’s Alpha was 0.84. Availability: The items can be found in the article found in Social S

  Assessment name:      God and the Devil’s Ability to Influence One’s Conscience Scale overview: Two items measure beliefs about the ability of God and the devil to influence one’s conscience. Authors: W A Schutt & J J Exline, 2023 Response Type: A five choice rating scale of degree of influence: 1. no, definitely not 2. probably not 3. not sure 4. probably 5. yes, definitely Scale items: Item one asks about God’s ability to influence one’s conscience and item two asks about the power of the devil or demons to influence one’s conscience. Psychometric properties     God item M 3.31 and SD = 1.49   Devil item M 2.21 and SD = 1.26 The authors reported concurrent validity in a table of correlations with related measures. They also presented a model linking the beliefs with other conscience-related measures. Their measure of religiosity was Religious Belief Salience. Availability: The items are available on page 16 of Schutt & Exline, 2023 A rel

  Islamic Center of America (Bing Free to Share & Use/ Wikipedia) Assessment name:   Islamophobia Scale (IS) Scale overview: The Islamophobia Scale (IS) is a 16-item, two-factor, self-report measure of a person’s fear-related attitudes toward Muslims and the religion of Islam. Authors: Lee, Gibbons, and Thompson Response Type: Scale items: There are 8 items for each of two factors (subscales) for a total of 16 items. AB factor: Islamophobia Affective-Behavioral Items include statements about avoiding contact with Muslims and concerns about safety around Muslims. CG factor: Islamophobia Cognitive Items include statements about Islam and danger, violence, evil, and killing of non-Muslims as well as Islam as anti-American. Psychometric properties Internal consistency: Alpha values: For scale AB = .92, Scale CG = .93 (Lee et al., 2013) Tests-retest reliability: For an average of 11.56 days, the values for each scale were AB = .85, CG = .96 (Lee et al., 2013).

  Assessment name:   Divine Forgiveness Scale Scale overview: Divine Forgiveness is a five-item self-report measure of a person’s perception of being forgiven by God. Authors: Frank Fincham and Ross May Response Type: The first 3 items are rated on a 4-point scale of agreement from strongly disagree to strongly agree. The last 2 item are rated on a scale of frequency of forgiveness from never to many times. Scale items See Fincham and May 2023, page 168 and 2019 page 3. “How often have you felt that God forgives you?” “I am certain that God forgives me when I seek His forgiveness” “Knowing that I am forgiven for my sins gives me the strength to face my faults and be a better person” “How often do you experience situations in which you have the feeling that God is merciful to you?” “How often do you experience situations in which you have the feeling that God delivers you from a debt?” Psychometric properties Refer to two Fincham and May publications identi