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Title: | A Day of Judgment: a Study on Turkish Muslims Students |
Authors: | Bashai, James A. Dadfar, Mahboubeh Kar, Sait Lester, David Turan, Yahya Ordu Üniversitesi 0000-0002-7441-4914 |
Keywords: | COLLETT-LESTER FEAR; DEATH ANXIETY; PSYCHOMETRIC CHARACTERISTICS; CONCURRENT VALIDITY; FACTORIAL STRUCTURE; ALPHA RELIABILITY; FARSI VERSION; SCALE; RELIGIOSITY; BELIEF Day of judgment; Belief in afterlife; Religion; Judaism; Christianity; Islam |
Issue Date: | 2020 |
Publisher: | SPRINGER, ONE NEW YORK PLAZA, SUITE 4600, NEW YORK, NY, UNITED STATES |
Abstract: | The sacred texts in Judaism, Christianity and Islam all advocate the idea of a Day of Judgment following death. The aims of the present study were (1) to investigate the psychometric properties of the Belief in a Day of Judgment Scale (Beshai and Lester 2013), (2) to explore gender- differences in these beliefs, and (3) to investigate differences in beliefs about the Judgment Day across academic disciplines in sampled students. A sample of 275 female and 110 male Turkish students was recruited from six academic disciplines: English language and literature, sociology, mathematics, psychological counseling, divinity, and nursing. Participants responded to the Turkish version of the Belief in a Day of Judgment Scale. Reliability of the scale from this sample revealed a Cronbach's a of 0.92, and a principal component analysis extracted two components labeled Belief in a Day of Judgment and Bad Behavior/Actions Toward Others. Men and women did not differ in scores, but the discipline-related differences were significant. Further research should use a representative sample derived from the general population in Turkey and explore comparisons among Jewish, Christian, and Muslim samples. |
URI: | http://doi.org/10.1007/s11089-020-00897-3 http://earsiv.odu.edu.tr:8080/xmlui/handle/11489/2756 |
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