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Direct linkAstley, 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
Astley, Jeff; Francis, Leslie J. – British Journal of Religious Education, 2010
A sample of 187 female students, attending a sixth-form study day on religious studies, completed a questionnaire containing four scales concerned with assessing: attitude towards theistic religion, attitude towards science, scientism and creationism. The data demonstrated a negative correlation between attitude towards religion and attitude…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Religion, Creationism, Sciences
Robbins, Mandy; Francis, Leslie J. – British Journal of Religious Education, 2010
The Teenage Religion and Values Survey was conducted throughout the 1990s among young people between the ages of 13 and 15 years. A total of 33,982 young people took part in the survey. As the next phase of this research begins for the twenty-first century, this paper looks back at the survey conducted in the 1990s and considers two aspects of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Adults, Adolescents, Personality
Francis, Leslie J.; Williams, Emyr; Robbins, Mandy – British Journal of Religious Education, 2010
A sample of 10,851 pupils (5493 males and 5358 females) attending Year 9 classes (13- to 14-year-olds) and a sample of 9494 pupils (4787 males and 4707 females) attending Year 10 classes (14- to 15-year-olds) in non-denominational state-maintained secondary schools in England and Wales completed questions concerned with conventional Christian…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Social Behavior, Adolescents, Personality
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 internal reliability…
Descriptors: Social Differences, Muslims, Religion, Construct Validity
Francis, Leslie J.; Robbins, Mandy; Barnes, L. Philip; Lewis, Christopher A. – British Journal of Religious Education, 2006
The aim of the present study was to build on John Greer's systematic set of studies concerned with teenage beliefs and values conducted among samples of sixth form students attending County and Protestant voluntary schools in Northern Ireland in 1968, 1978 and 1988. The present study replicated the earlier surveys for a further time in 1998. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parochial Schools, Protestants, Religion
Loman, Susan E.; Francis, Leslie J. – British Journal of Religious Education, 2006
This paper proposes a new instrument designed to distinguish among three ways in which young adolescents respond to familiar passages from the New Testament, defined as literal acceptance, symbolic acceptance and rejection modes. The reliability and validity of this instrument, styled the Loman Index of Biblical Interpretation, was established on…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Reliability, Validity, Early Adolescents
Independent Christian Schools and Pupil Values: An Empirical Investigation among 13-15-Year-Old Boys
Francis, Leslie J. – British Journal of Religious Education, 2005
Nineteen independent Christian schools participated in the teenage religion and values survey, contributing to the overall database of nearly 34,000 Year 9 and Year 10 pupils. The present analysis demonstrates that 13-15-year-old boys educated within independent Christian schools display a distinctive values profile, in comparison with pupils…
Descriptors: Parochial Schools, Males, Christianity, Moral Values
