title: The Age Universal I-E Scale-12 and orientation toward religion: confirmatory factor analysis.
abstract: Confirmatory factor analysis was used to explore the suggested 2-factor and 3-factor models of the Age Universal I-E Scale-12 among 4,160 respondents. The present findings suggested that the 3-factor model provided a better fit of the data than the 2-factor model did. The findings with this version of the Age Universal I-E Scale were consistent with recent theories that the main distinctions in intrinsic and extrinsic religious orientation comprise intrinsic, extrinsic-personal, and extrinsic-social religious dimensions.
authors.affiliation: School of Social Science and Law, Sheffield Hallam University, England, United Kingdom. jm148@le.ac.uk
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Maltby
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002648:Child; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007494:Ireland; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D011581:Psychological Tests; D011594:Psychometrics; D012067:Religion; D012069:Religion and Psychology; D006113:United Kingdom; D014481:United States