Internal consistency of a five-item form of the Francis Scale of Attitude Toward Christianity among adolescent students.
The short form of the Francis Scale of Attitude Toward Christianity (L. J. Francis, 1992) is a 7-item Likert-type scale that shows high homogeneity among adolescents. The psychometric performance of a shorter version of this scale has not been explored. The authors aimed to determine the internal consistency of a 5-item form of the Francis Scale of Attitude Toward Christianity among 405 students from a school in Cartagena, Colombia. The authors computed the Cronbach's alpha coefficient for the 5 items with a greater corrected item-total punctuation correlation. The version without Items 2 and 7 showed internal consistency of .87. The 5-item version of the Francis Scale of Attitude Toward Christianity exhibited higher internal consistency than did the 7-item version. Future researchers should corroborate this finding.
Human Behavioral Research Institute, Bogotá, Colombia. campoarias@comportamientohumano.org
Adalberto
A
Campo-Arias
Heidi Celina
HC
Oviedo
Zuleima
Z
Cogollo
D000293:Adolescent; D001290:Attitude; D002835:Christianity / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011581:Psychological Tests; D000297:Psychology, Adolescent; D012069:Religion and Psychology; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D013030:Spain