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<p>The study aimed to develop and validate a scale on religious practices for the Muslim community. Three studies were conducted as a part of the current research to achieve the goals. Study I has three phases. Phase I involved developing the initial pool of items derived from interviews and the literature review (deductive and inductive approaches). The initial pool consisted of 68 items. In Phase II pilot study was conducted. The preliminary scale was administered to 50 participants. Phase III involved the development of the Religious Practice Scale by administering the initial pool of items on a convenient sample (<i>N</i> = 339) of Muslim participants with an age of 18&#xa0;years and above (<i>M</i> = 35.7, S.D. = 10.7). Exploratory factor analysis revealed a three-factor structure consisting of 29 items with 50.03% variance. The reliability of the scale with all its subscales is 0.92, 0.93, 0.87 and 0.79. In order to confirm the factor structure obtained through EFA, Study II replicated the factorial structure of the Religious Practices Scale through confirmatory factor analysis. The three-dimensional factor structure with a satisfactory coefficient fit to the data was validated by the CFA results. Study III demonstrated the scale’s discriminant and convergent validity on a sample of 200 participants. Ultimately, the validation results demonstrated convergent validity by showing a significant positive correlation between the Religious Practices Scale, the Divine Retribution Scale, and the Short Muslim Belief and Practice Scale. Moreover, the Religious Practices measure shows a non-significant correlation with the Friendship Scale, indicating discriminant validity. Further recommendations for future research have also been provided.</p>

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Construction and Validation of Religious Practices Scale for Pakistani Muslim Population

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  • 发表日期：

    2025年8月24日

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  • Rashida Akmal,
  • Saba Ghayas,
  • Sheharyar Ahmad,
  • Syeda Tooba Akhtar

摘要

The study aimed to develop and validate a scale on religious practices for the Muslim community. Three studies were conducted as a part of the current research to achieve the goals. Study I has three phases. Phase I involved developing the initial pool of items derived from interviews and the literature review (deductive and inductive approaches). The initial pool consisted of 68 items. In Phase II pilot study was conducted. The preliminary scale was administered to 50 participants. Phase III involved the development of the Religious Practice Scale by administering the initial pool of items on a convenient sample (N = 339) of Muslim participants with an age of 18 years and above (M = 35.7, S.D. = 10.7). Exploratory factor analysis revealed a three-factor structure consisting of 29 items with 50.03% variance. The reliability of the scale with all its subscales is 0.92, 0.93, 0.87 and 0.79. In order to confirm the factor structure obtained through EFA, Study II replicated the factorial structure of the Religious Practices Scale through confirmatory factor analysis. The three-dimensional factor structure with a satisfactory coefficient fit to the data was validated by the CFA results. Study III demonstrated the scale’s discriminant and convergent validity on a sample of 200 participants. Ultimately, the validation results demonstrated convergent validity by showing a significant positive correlation between the Religious Practices Scale, the Divine Retribution Scale, and the Short Muslim Belief and Practice Scale. Moreover, the Religious Practices measure shows a non-significant correlation with the Friendship Scale, indicating discriminant validity. Further recommendations for future research have also been provided.