title: The prevalence of extreme Middle Eastern ideologies around the world.
abstract: The Belief Diversity Scale (BDS) was administered to Australian, Canadian, Egyptian, and South African participants of different religious backgrounds. The BDS is a 33-item, six subscale instrument that is designed to quantitatively measure Middle Eastern extremist ideologies on risk areas that are reported in the literature. Results demonstrated the reliability and validity of the BDS, thus suggesting that the BDS could be used as an objective tool to measure Middle Eastern extremist ideologies. Results also supported the hypothesis of prevalence of Middle Eastern extremist ideologies around different parts of the world.
authors.affiliation: Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. wml1@sympatico.ca
authors.forename: Wagdy
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Loza
authors.forename: Youssef
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Abd-el-Fatah
authors.forename: Johan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Prinsloo
authors.forename: Anni
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hesselink-Louw
authors.forename: Katie
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Seidler
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001290:Attitude; D001315:Australia; D002170:Canada; D004534:Egypt; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007514:Islam / Q000523:psychology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D008877:Middle East; D011287:Prejudice; D015995:Prevalence; D011594:Psychometrics; D012069:Religion and Psychology; D013019:South Africa; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D023481:Terrorism / Q000208:ethnology*; D014754:Violence / Q000208:ethnology*; D055815:Young Adult