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Francis, Leslie J.; Erken, Humeyra Guleryuz; Village, Andrew – Journal of Religious Education, 2022
This study developed and tested a Turkish translation of the 23-item Sahin-Francis Scale of Attitude toward Islam (containing six negatively-voiced items) on data provided by 493 participants (191 school students and 302 undergraduate students). Two research questions were tested on these data. First, exploratory factor analyses suggested that…
Descriptors: Religion, Muslims, Islam, Student Attitudes
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Francis, Leslie J.; McKenna, Ursula; Arweck, Elisabeth – Journal of Beliefs & Values, 2020
Drawing on data provided by 5,811 students from schools in England, Wales, and London who self-identified as either 'no religion' or as Christian, this study explored the effect of the contact hypothesis (having friends who are Muslims) on scores recorded on the seven-item Scale of Anti-Muslim Attitude (SAMA), after controlling for type of school…
Descriptors: Social Attitudes, Muslims, Christianity, Attitude Measures
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Astley, Jeff; Francis, Leslie J.; Robbins, Mandy – British Journal of Religious Education, 2012
This study builds on the research tradition modelled by the Francis Scale of Attitude towards Christianity, the Katz-Francis Scale of Attitude towards Judaism, the Sahin-Francis Scale of Attitude towards Islam and the Santosh-Francis Scale of Attitude towards Hinduism to propose a generic instrument concerned with attitudes towards theistic faith.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Measures (Individuals), Attitudes, Christianity
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Brockett, Adrian; Village, Andrew; Francis, Leslie J. – British Journal of Religious Education, 2009
The Attitude toward Muslim Proximity Index (AMPI) is a six-item scale that uses tolerance to different degrees of social distance to assess prejudice towards Muslims. It was tested on 1777 teenage school children from northern England who indicated their religion as either "Christian" or "no religion", and demonstrated good…
Descriptors: Social Differences, Muslims, Religion, Construct Validity