Temporal stability of the Francis Scale of Attitude Toward Christianity among 9- to 11-year-old English children: Test-retest data over six weeks

Author： Christopher Alan Lewis DPhil Sharon Mary Cruise BSc Conor McGuckin PhD The Revd Canon Professor Leslie J. Francis PhD

Publisher： Scientific Journal Publishers

ISSN： 0301-2212

Source： Social Behavior and Personality: An international journal, Vol.34, Iss.9, 2006-10, pp. : 1081-1086

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Abstract

Recently two studies have reported on the test-retest reliability of the Francis Scale of Attitude toward Christianity; however, these studies were limited to samples of university students. This study examined the temporal stability of both the 24- and 7-item versions of the junior version of the Francis Scale of Attitude toward Christianity (Francis, 1978; Francis, Greer, and Gibson, 1991) over a six-week period among a sample of 58 English children aged between 9 and 11 years old. Data demonstrated that stability across the two administrations was very high for both the 24- (r=.74) and 7-item (r=.67) versions, and there was no significant change between Time 1 and Time 2 for either version. These data support the short-term test-retest reliability of both the 24- and 7-item versions of the junior version of the Francis Scale of Attitude toward Christianity among children.