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50 Years of ERIC
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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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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
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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
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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