title: Cross-Cultural Validation and Psychometric Properties of the Arabic Brief Religious Coping Scale (A-BRCS).
abstract: The aim of this study was to translate and validate the psychometric properties of an Arabic Brief Religious Coping Scale. A descriptive correlational design was used to conduct the study among participants of 403 Iraqi secondary school students. The A-BRCS and both the subscales, positive and negative, had Cronbach's alphas of .70, .86 and .82, respectively. All inter-item and item-to-total correlations for each subscale were above the recommended criteria of .30. Factor loadings of the positive subscale using oblique (oblimin) and orthogonal (varimax) rotations ranged from .72 to .86 and from .71 to .86, respectively. Factor loadings of the negative subscale using oblimin and varimax rotations ranged from .64 to .83 and from .63 to .83, respectively. The A-BRCS was found to be a valid and reliable instrument to measure religious coping among Iraqi secondary school students.
authors.affiliation: Division of Psychiatry and Applied Psychology, School of Medicine, The University of Nottingham, 57 Brook Court, Player Street, Nottingham, NG7 5PP, UK. ashraaff2005@yahoo.com.
authors.forename: Ashraf
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Al-Hadethe
authors.affiliation: Division of Psychiatry and Applied Psychology, School of Medicine, The University of Nottingham, 57 Brook Court, Player Street, Nottingham, NG7 5PP, UK.
authors.forename: Nigel
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Hunt
authors.affiliation: Division of Psychiatry and Applied Psychology, School of Medicine, The University of Nottingham, 57 Brook Court, Player Street, Nottingham, NG7 5PP, UK.|Division of Rehabilitation and Ageing, School of Medicine, The University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK.
authors.forename: Shirley
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Thomas
authors.affiliation: Division of Psychiatry and Applied Psychology, School of Medicine, The University of Nottingham, 57 Brook Court, Player Street, Nottingham, NG7 5PP, UK.|Department of Education and Psychology, College of Education for Women, Baghdad University, Baghdad, Iraq.
authors.forename: Abdulgaffar
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Al-Qaysi
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D003466:Cultural Characteristics; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007493:Iraq; D008297:Male; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires / Q000592:standards*; D014175:Translating; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Arabic Brief Religious Coping Scale; Cross-cultural validation; Psychometric properties