title: Religious involvement measurement model in a national sample of African Americans.
abstract: This study examined the factor structure of a brief measure of religious involvement developed previously in research with African American women. Telephone interview methods were used with a national sample of both African American women and men (N = 2,370). Confirmatory factor analyses supported the distinction between religious beliefs and religious behaviors factors and indicated that the factor loadings were equivalent for women and men. Women reported higher levels of religious involvement than men. These results support the validity of this relatively brief instrument for assessing these two dimensions of religious involvement for both African American women and men.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA. droth@uab.edu
authors.forename: David L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Roth
authors.forename: Isaac
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Mwase
authors.forename: Cheryl L
authors.initials: CL
authors.lastname: Holt
authors.forename: Eddie M
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Clark
authors.forename: Susan N
authors.initials: SN
authors.lastname: Lukwago
authors.forename: Matthew W
authors.initials: MW
authors.lastname: Kreuter
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001741:Black or African American / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D000368:Aged; D001294:Attitude to Health / Q000208:ethnology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D008960:Models, Psychological; D012067:Religion; D012069:Religion and Psychology; D017678:Sex Distribution; D012938:Social Perception; D029181:Spirituality; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology