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Article: "Faith Maturity Scale" for Chinese: A Revision and Construct Validation

Title"Faith Maturity Scale" for Chinese: A Revision and Construct Validation
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Issue Date2011
PublisherRoutledge. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t775653664
Citation
International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, 2011, v. 21 n. 4, p. 308-322 How to Cite?
AbstractUsing a large sample of Chinese Christians (n = 2,196), we examined the internal structure, reliability, and validity of the Faith Maturity Scale (FMS). Despite its being developed in North America, and for a mainline Protestant population, the FMS was shown to have validity among non-Western, non-mainline Protestants. There is convergent validity with self-reported religious practices and a belief measure of religiosity. Our analyses also confirmed good construct validity with the Big Five personality dimensions, social axioms, attributional style, and quality of life. FMS remained associated with religious practices and high quality of life after personality was statistically controlled. Findings supported that the Chinese version of the FMS assesses the same theoretical construct as does the original scale and that the distinction between the vertical and horizontal dimensions of faith maturity is meaningful. © 2011 Copyright Taylor and Francis Group, LLC.
Persistent Identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/133743
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2023 Impact Factor: 1.7
2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.782
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dc.contributor.authorHui, CHen_HK
dc.contributor.authorWai Ng, ECen_HK
dc.contributor.authorYing Mok, DSen_HK
dc.contributor.authorYing Lau, EYen_HK
dc.contributor.authorCheung, SFen_HK
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dc.description.abstractUsing a large sample of Chinese Christians (n = 2,196), we examined the internal structure, reliability, and validity of the Faith Maturity Scale (FMS). Despite its being developed in North America, and for a mainline Protestant population, the FMS was shown to have validity among non-Western, non-mainline Protestants. There is convergent validity with self-reported religious practices and a belief measure of religiosity. Our analyses also confirmed good construct validity with the Big Five personality dimensions, social axioms, attributional style, and quality of life. FMS remained associated with religious practices and high quality of life after personality was statistically controlled. Findings supported that the Chinese version of the FMS assesses the same theoretical construct as does the original scale and that the distinction between the vertical and horizontal dimensions of faith maturity is meaningful. © 2011 Copyright Taylor and Francis Group, LLC.en_HK
dc.languageengen_US
dc.publisherRoutledge. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t775653664en_HK
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dc.rightsThis is an electronic version of an article published in International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, 2011, v. 21 n. 4, p. 308-322. The article is available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10508619.2011.607417-
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