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  Assessment name:   Islamic Religiosity Scale (IRS) Scale overview: The Islamic Religiosity Scale is a 16-item self-report measure of Islamic beliefs and practices. Authors:   Tiliouine, Habib ;  Cummins, Robert A. ;  Davern, Melanie Response Type: The items are rated on a 5-point Likert-type scale. Scale items: The items refer to Islamic practices such as prayer, studying the Koran, and charity. Psychometric properties Alpha values varied with the subscales (Tiliouine et al., 2009). Availability: Author contact Tiliouine, Habib: htiliouine@yahoo.fr The full set of items can be found in the PsycTESTS reference. Resource Links:    A – Z Test Index    A - Z Index of Spiritual & Religious Assessment  References for the scale: Tiliouine, H., Cummins, R. A., & Davern, M. (2009). Islamic Religiosity Scale. PsycTESTS . https://doi.org/10.1037/t18902-000 Tiliouine, H., Cummins, R. A., & Davern, M. (2009). Islamic religiosity, subjective well-being, a

  Assessment name:   Knowledge-Practice Measure of Islamic Religiosity (KPMIR) Scale overview: The Knowledge-Practice Measure of Islamic Religiosity (KPMIR) Author: Mohammad Adnan Alghorani Response Type: Multiple choice Scales and items: There are 100 items in the overall KPMIR measure, which has two scales: Islamic Knowledge and Islamic Practice. The Islamic Knowledge scale includes five subscales: Knowledge of Creed, Worship, Appearance, Jurisprudence, History. The Islamic Practice scale has four subscales: Practice of Creed, Worship, Appearance, and Jurisprudence. Psychometric properties The sample was 211 Muslim students in a US High School. Content validity was based on the expert judgment of Muslim scholars. Internal consistency values were high for the full scale and the subscales. Cronbach alpha values   Full scale = .920     Islamic Knowledge = .842       Islamic Practice = .882 See Alghorani (2008) for details on the alpha values of the subscales

  Assessment name:   Islamic Doctrinal Orthodoxy (IDO) Scale overview: The Islamic Doctrinal Orthodoxy (IDO) scale is an eight-item self-report measure of Islamic beliefs (Ji & Ibrahim, 2007). Authors: Ji & Ibrahim Response Type: Participants rate the items on a 9-point scale of agreement. Scale items : The authors (Ji & Ibrahim, 2007b) reported two factors: Cognitive-Abstract Orthodoxy (CAO) and Ritualistic-Judgmental Orthodoxy (RJO). The items assess agreement with Islamic teachings on Allah, Mohammed the Prophet, the Koran, the five pillars of Islam, and the last judgment. Examples CAO: “I believe there is no other God but Allah” RJO: “Salah is crucial to the life of a Muslim” Psychometric properties Overall alpha was high at .90 (Ji & Ibrahim, 2007a). The alpha levels for the subscales were also high (Ji & Ibrahim, 2007b) CAO = .93 and RJO = .83. The correlation of the IDO with Intrinsic religiosity was low but reliable (.17). There were

Jama Masjid, India   Assessment name:   Muslim Attitudes Toward Religion Scale (MARS) Scale overview: The Muslim Attitudes Toward Religion Scale (MARS) is a 14-item measure of Islamic religiosity (Wilde & Joseph, 1997). Authors: Wilde & Joseph Response Type: 5-point Likert scale ranging from strongly disagree (1) to strongly agree (5) . Scores on the total scale have a possible range of 14 to 70, with higher scores indicating a more positive attitude Scale items There are three subscales (with sample items)   Personal Help: “Saying my prayer helps me a lot.”   Muslim Worldview: “I like to learn about Allah very much.”   Muslims’ Practices: “I pray five times a day.” Psychometric properties Internal consistency was high (alpha = .93) and there is support for construct validity and concurrent validity based on correlations with other measures of religiosity (Ghorbani et al., 2000; Wilde & Joseph, 1997). Ghorbani et al. (2000) identified three factors ea

  Assessment name:   Belief in Pure Good Scale (BPG) Scale overview: The Belief in Pure Good scale is a 28-item self-report rating scale indicating perceptions of good based on the theorizing of Baumeister (1999). Authors: Webster, Russell J., & Saucier, Donald A Response Type: Participants rate the items on a 7-point scale of agreement from 1 (disagree very strongly) to 7 (agree very strongly). Scale items There are 28 items on the scale. Each item is associated with a component of pure good . Following is a list of the components of pure good assessed by the scale.   General   Intentional Help   Facilitates Peace   Impartial Help   Without Reward   Rare in World   Avoids Aggression     Defies Corruption Psychometric properties The authors provided descriptive statistics and evidence for internal consistency along with early evidence for validity based on correlations with measures of related variables. Availability: The full set of items is ava

  Assessment name:   Belief in Pure Evil Scale (BPE) Scale overview: The Belief in Pure Evil scale is a 22-item self-report rating scale indicating perceptions of evil based on the theorizing of Baumeister (1999). Authors: Webster, Russell J. & Saucier, Donald A Response Type: Participants rate the items on a 7-point scale of agreement from 1 (disagree very strongly) to 7 (agree very strongly). Scale items : There are 22 items on the scale. Each item is associated with a component of pure evil . Following is a list of the components of pure evil assessed by the scale.   General   Intentional Harm   Joy of Harm   Understanding evil   Low self-control   Egotism   Eternal/Disposition   Antithesis of Peace Psychometric properties The authors provided descriptive statistics and evidence for internal consistency along with early evidence for validity based on correlations with measures of related variables. Availability: The full set of item