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Akhtar, Nafees; Francis, Leslie J.; Village, Andrew; Sailer, Alison B.; Hasan, Syeda Salma; McKenna, Ursula – Journal of Religious Education, 2023
This paper examines the psychometric properties of the 30-item Moral Foundations Questionnaire among a sample of 370 young adults between the ages of 18 and 26 years who were born in Punjab and who had lived there since their birth. Initial analyses did not support the internal consistency reliability of the five scales of moral predispositions…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Adults, Moral Values, Muslims
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
Francis, Leslie J.; Lankshear, David W.; McKenna, Ursula – British Journal of Religious Education, 2022
This paper set out to explore and to compare the experiences and attitudes of self-identified Muslim students (N = 84) and self-identified Christian students (N = 87) attending the same Anglican primary schools in Wales within the context of the Student Voice Project. The data identified two distinct attitudinal trajectories, one assessed by the…
Descriptors: Christianity, Muslims, Student Attitudes, Attitude Measures
Francis, Leslie J.; McKenna, Ursula; Lewis, Christopher Alan – Journal of Religious Education, 2020
John Greer first introduced the Francis Scale of Attitude toward Christianity in 1979 into his programme of research designed to chart the religious trajectory of students attending Protestant and Catholic schools in Northern Ireland. The present study conducted in 2011 builds on earlier studies conducted in 1979, 1984, the early 1990s, and 1998.…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Catholic Schools, Christianity, Attitude Measures
Francis, Leslie J.; Byrne, Gareth; Lewis, Christopher Alan; Sweetman, Bernadette – Journal of Religious Education, 2020
This study set out to explore levels of religious affect (measured by the Francis Scale of Attitude toward Christianity) and personal affect (measured by the Oxford Happiness Questionnaire) among samples of Catholic students in the Republic of Ireland attending fifth- and sixth-year classes (N = 3015) and Catholic students in Northern Ireland…
Descriptors: Catholics, Cross Cultural Studies, Comparative Analysis, Psychological Patterns
Francis, Leslie J.; Casson, Ann – Journal of Religious Education, 2019
Drawing on data from a survey conducted among 9,810 young people in England, Scotland, and Wales, this study examines parental and peer influence on church attendance among 2146 13- to 15-year-old students who identified themselves as Catholics. The data suggested that young Catholics who practise their Catholic identity by attending church do so…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parent Influence, Peer Influence, Adolescents
Francis, Leslie J.; Village, Andrew – British Journal of Religious Education, 2020
This study employs multi-level linear statistical modelling to examine the power of school-level and individual-level factors to predict individual differences in scores recorded on the Francis Scale of Attitude toward Christianity by 6,036 students (who self-identified as either Christian or no religion) in year-seven, year-eight, year-nine,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Individual Differences, Predictor Variables, Religion
Francis, Leslie J.; Lankshear, David W.; Eccles, Emma L. – British Journal of Religious Education, 2020
As a consequence of the 1944 Education Act church schools were given the choice of opting for voluntary controlled status or for voluntary aided status. In voluntary aided status the Church had more control but carried greater costs. Within England and Wales this distinction is still maintained. This study measures the attitude toward Christianity…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Christianity, Religious Factors, Churches
Wilkinson, Jacqui; Francis, Leslie J.; McKenna, Ursula – Journal of Religious Education, 2018
This study examines the associations between frequency of personal prayer, frequency of worship attendance and spiritual wellbeing among 468 students attending fourth, fifth and sixth classes within 18 Church of Ireland schools located in one diocese in the Republic of Ireland. Spiritual wellbeing is measured by a modified form of the Fisher…
Descriptors: Religious Factors, Spiritual Development, Well Being, Elementary School Students
McKenna, Ursula; Francis, Leslie J. – British Journal of Religious Education, 2019
What does it mean to be a Muslim young woman in Britain today and with which religious and social values do these young women identify? This paper tests the thesis that Muslim identity predicts distinctive values of public and social significance among female adolescents (13- to 15- years of age) who participated in a survey conducted across the…
Descriptors: Females, Muslims, Social Values, Religious Education
Francis, Leslie J.; Astley, Jeff; McKenna, Ursula – British Journal of Religious Education, 2019
This study drew on data provided by 11,809 13- to 15-year-old students drawn from the four nations of the UK to explore the level of agreement with the view that science disproves the biblical account odf creation, and to explore the power of five sets of variables to predict individual differences in responses to that opinion. The five sets of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Conflict, Religion, Sciences
Francis, Leslie J.; Village, Andrew – Religious Education, 2014
The Young People's Attitudes to Religious Diversity Project was established to compare the attitudes of students (13-to 15-years of age) educated within the state-maintained sector in church schools (Catholic, Anglican, joint Anglican and Catholic) and in schools without a religious foundation. Data provided by 5,402 students recruited from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Religious Education, Religious Cultural Groups, Cultural Pluralism
Francis, Leslie J.; ap Siôn, Tania; McKenna, Ursula; Penny, Gemma – British Journal of Religious Education, 2017
This study begins by examining the way in which, in both England and Wales, Religious Education has become implicated in political discussion regarding the role of education in promoting community cohesion. The relationship between taking Religious Education as an examination subject and attitude towards religious diversity (as an affective…
Descriptors: Religious Education, Community Coordination, Role of Education, Role of Religion
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
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
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