The Psychology of Religious BeliefThis book is concerned with empirical studies of religious belief, and the contexts within which they are to be understood. It also examines classical views of religion, its structures and parameters, the readiness for religion, and the reasons for accepting religious beliefs. While some knowledge of psychology is assumed, the book is designed to be more generally intelligible to the average reader. |
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... scores on Thurstone and Chave's original attitude toward the Church scale with Likert's summated rating scale method of measurement . They found that a 25 item Likert scale had a slightly higher reliability ( 0.94 compared with 0.88 ) ...
... scores on Thurstone and Chave's original attitude toward the Church scale with Likert's summated rating scale method of measurement . They found that a 25 item Likert scale had a slightly higher reliability ( 0.94 compared with 0.88 ) ...
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... scores from items like that were inter- correlated with five separate verbal attitude scores it was found that the correlation of the multiple act criterion score with each of the separate attitude scores was as high as the ...
... scores from items like that were inter- correlated with five separate verbal attitude scores it was found that the correlation of the multiple act criterion score with each of the separate attitude scores was as high as the ...
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... scores on Francis's ( 1978 ) attitude to religion scale and neuroticism . When sex differ- ences were partialled out , however , that relationship between neuroticism and religion disappeared . A similar effect was found between ...
... scores on Francis's ( 1978 ) attitude to religion scale and neuroticism . When sex differ- ences were partialled out , however , that relationship between neuroticism and religion disappeared . A similar effect was found between ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Beyond the classics | 11 |
Identifying the religious variable | 37 |
Copyright | |
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