How to Measure Baha'i Religiosity

The CRSi-20 for Baha'is as a First Reliable and Valid Measurement

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4313787
AutoresDemmrich (0000-0001-9362-0441, University of Münster, autor de correspondencia)
Año2020
Volumen11
Número1
Páginas29
Fecha de publicación2020-01-06
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaReligions (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2077-1444 • E-ISSN: 2077-1444
EditorialMDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT)
DOI10.3390/rel11010029
OpenAlexW2998635700
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas6
Referencias citadas28

The concepts and measurements in psychology of religion often adhere to its Judeo-Christian roots, which causes problems when measuring non-Christian religiosity. In this paper, two successive studies are presented. The first study applied Huber's CRS-15, while the second study used the CRSi-20. Both samples consisted of believers of the non-Christian, Abrahamic Baha'i religion in Germany. In the first study, in which N = 472 participated (MAge = 43.22, SDAge = 15.59, 60.0% female), the reliability and validity issues related to items of public practice and experience of the CRS-15 were uncovered. After modifying the content of these items and adding the five additional items of the interreligious CRSi-20, which was tested among N = 324 participants (MAge = 47.12, SDAge = 17.06, 59.6% female) in a second study, most reliability issues were solved. Confirmatory factor analyses revealed that the CRSi-20 model describes the data appropriately with adequate fit indices. Therefore, the CRSi-20 for Baha'is offers the first reliable and valid measurements of Baha'i religiosity, being at the same time capable of taking the emic perspective fully into account while maintaining the possibility of cross-religious comparisons

Confirmatory factor analysis · Emic and etic · Religiosity · Sociology · Statistics · Structural equation modeling · Anthropology · Cultural Differences and Values · Mathematics · Psychology · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology