Internal Consistency of a Five-Item Form of the Francis Scale of Attitude Toward Christianity Among Adolescent Students.

STUDENT attitudes; ATTITUDE (Psychology); CHRISTIANITY; RELIGIONS; SOCIAL attitudes; PREJUDICES

The short form of the Francis Scale of Attitude Toward Christianity (L. J. Francis, 1992) is a 7-item Likert-type scale that shows high homogeneity among adolescents. The psychometric performance of a shorter version of this scale has not been explored. The authors aimed to determine the internal consistency of a 5-item form of the Francis Scale of Attitude Toward Christianity among 405 students from a school in Cartagena, Colombia. The authors computed the Cronbach's alpha coefficient for the 5 items with a greater corrected item-total punctuation correlation. The version without Items 2 and 7 showed internal consistency of .87. The 5-item version of the Francis Scale of Attitude Toward Christianity exhibited higher internal consistency than did the 7-item version. Future researchers should corroborate this finding. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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