title: Associations between religious behavior and attitude to Christianity among Australian Catholic adolescents: scale validation.
abstract: In a sample of 1,166 Catholic high school students (age = 13-18 years), the author used confirmatory factor analysis to validate a 30-item instrument that assesses 6 dimensions of attitude to Christianity (viz., attitude to prayer, attitude to God, attitude to Jesus, attitude to the Bible, attitude to Christian practice, attitude to social justice). Goodness-of-fit indices for the proposed measurement model revealed that the model fitted the data very well, thus confirming the instrument's structure. A correlation analysis revealed associations between religious behavior and attitude to Christianity.
authors.affiliation: School of Education, Australian Catholic University, Everton Park, Australia. J.Dorman@mcauley.acu.edu.au
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Dorman
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001290:Attitude; D002410:Catholicism; D002835:Christianity; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009517:New South Wales; D010555:Personality Inventory; D012069:Religion and Psychology; D012933:Social Identification; D012935:Social Justice