ERIC Number: EJ913910
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2011-Feb
Pages: 17
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ISSN: ISSN-0886-2605
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The Prevalence of Extreme Middle Eastern Ideologies around the World
Loza, Wagdy; Abd-El-Fatah, Youssef; Prinsloo, Johan; Hesselink-Louw, Anni; Seidler, Katie
Journal of Interpersonal Violence, v26 n3 p522-538 Feb 2011
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. (Contains 6 tables.)
Descriptors: Incidence, Ideology, Measures (Individuals), Religious Cultural Groups, Risk, Reliability, Validity, Foreign Countries, Attitude Measures, Religious Factors, Muslims, Violence, Terrorism
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Australia; Canada; Egypt; South Africa
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