Adaptation of the Duke University Religion Index for Turkish speaking Muslims

Is belief priming associated with prosocial intentions? Experimental evidence from Turkey.

“…High scores on the scale indicate higher religiosity. The Cronbach’s α coefficient of this single-factor scale was found to be .90 in the adaptation study (Esat et al, 2021) and .91 in this study.…”

The factor structure of the Duke University Religion Index: Continuing the conversation.

“…More recently, Thomas et al (2018) conducted a PCA with the DUREL in a sample of U.S. veterans, resulting in a single-factor model. Numerous studies investigating the factor structure of various translations of the DUREL concluded that the best-fitting model was unidimensional: Chinese (Chen et al, 2014), Polish (Dobrowolska et al, 2016), Turkish (Esat et al, 2021), Farsi (Hafizi et al, 2013), European Portuguese (Martins et al, 2021), Malay (Nurasikin et al, 2010); Persian (Saffari et al, 2013), college students across 11 countries (Toscanelli et al, 2022).…”

Assessment of mental health, religion and culture: the development and examination of psychometric measures (Part X)

“…Ismail (2021) reports among samples of 182 and 59 Kurdish university students and 71 university lecturers, the development of the Life-view Scale in the Kurdish language.Second, three articles are presented that have focused on the evaluation of the psychometric properties of previously published scales that have been translated into other languages. Esat et al (2021) report among two samples (n = 46 bilingual Turkish participants; n = 532 Muslim Turkish-speaking individuals, about half of whom lived in the United States) of Turkish-speaking adults the satisfactory psychometric properties of the Turkish version of the Duke University Religion Index (Koenig & Büssing, 2010). Yıldırım and Tanrıverdi (2021) report among two samples (online sample, n = 228; paper-pencil sample, n = 200) of Turkish students the satisfactory psychometric properties of the Turkish version of the Fragility of Happiness Scale (Joshanloo et al, 2015).…”