Validation of the Abrahamic Forms of the Centrality of Religiosity Scale (CRS-5, CRS-10, and CRS-15): Evidence from Selected University Students in the Philippines

Abstract

The Centrality of Religiosity Scale (CRS) is an instrument that measures the centrality, importance, or salience of religious meanings in personality. Addressing the dearth of research on the salience of religion among Filipino Christian youths, the researchers explore in this paper the degree of religiosity of selected university students and the relevance of religious beliefs in their daily life by validating the Abrahamic forms of the Centrality of Religiosity Scale (CRS-5, CRS-10, and CRS-15). This paper specifically answers the following questions: (1) What CRS version is valid for Filipino Christian youths? (2) What is the position of the religious construct-system among selected Filipino Christian university students? and (3) How does the centrality of religiosity influences the selected Filipino Christian university students’ subjective experience and behavior? Means and standard deviations were calculated for the five subscales of the centrality of religiosity for CRS-5, CRS-10, and CRS-15. The distribution of the subscale scores was also computed using measures of skewness and kurtosis. Cronbach’s α values are provided for each of the subscales to establish internal consistency. Descriptive statistics were also computed with the use of the Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) software version 20. Bivariate correlations are reported for all CRS-15 items. This paper established that in a predominantly Christian country such as the Philippines, the CRS-15 is suitable in measuring the centrality of religiosity among Filipino Christian youths.

Religiosity, Theism, Perceived Social Support, Resilience, and Well-Being of University Undergraduate Students in Singapore during the COVID-19 Pandemic

“…CRSi-20 has good reliability and validity and demonstrated good convergent validity among the subscales and very good total score internal consistency ranging from α = 0.92 to α = 0.96, and subscales score ranging from α = 0.71 to α = 0.93 [ 76 , 77 , 88 ].…”

“…It was suggested that the contradicting findings on religion and well-being could be attributed to differences in the perceived closeness to the Divine [ 16 ], the lack of required minimum sample size [ 15 ], or the method used (e.g., Duke University Religion Index did not measure religious coping), together with the fact that most previous studies tend to focus only on religiosity [ 11 , 31 ], particularly extrinsic religiosity [ 76 , 77 ] and intrinsic religiosity [ 78 ], leaving much to investigate. However, it should be noted that religion can encompass many parameters that are not necessarily coupled tightly.…”

Religiosity, Beliefs in the Supernatural, Perceived Social Support, Resilience, and Well-being of University Students during the COVID-19 pandemic.

“…The CRSi-20 has good reliability and validity and demonstrated good convergent validity among the subscales and very good total score internal consistency ranging from α = .92 to α = .96, and subscales score ranging from α = .71 to α = . 93 (del Castillo et al, 2020;del Castillo et al, 2021;Lee & Kuang, 2020).…”

“…With contradicting findings on religion and well-being attributed to differences in the perceived closeness to the Divine (Malinakova et al, 2020), the lack of required sample size (Farag & Behzadi, 2018), or the method used (e.g. Duke University Religion Index did not measure religious coping) together with the fact that most previous studies tend to focus only on religiosity (Dilmaghani, 2018;Murken, 2004) based on extrinsic religiosity (del Castillo et al, 2020;del Castillo et al, 2021) and intrinsic religiosity (Koenig & Büssing, 2010), the type of beliefs of the supernatural, e.g. a personal relatable God vs an impersonal natural force were not investigated, much less with exercise as a confounding variable.…”

Kaugaliang Pilipino at ang kabataan ngayon tungo sa programang edukasyon sa pagpapakatao

“…Ngunit, ayon pa sa ibinahagi ng MyInfo Basket.com (2020), ang mga Pilipino ay magalang at mapitagan na kahit sa modernong panahon, marami pa rin ang nagpapakita ng halaga sa kani-kanilang mga pamantayan sa buhay at mga tradisyon. Kaya, iminungkahi nitong nararapat lamang na ipagpatuloy ng bawat isa ang magagandang kaugaliang tulad ng paggalang sa mga nakatatanda at iba pa sa pamamagitan ng paggamit ng "po at opo"; pagiging magiliw sa panauhin at pagiging relihiyoso (del Castillo et. al, 2021); paggamit ng sariling wika bilang pagpapatunay at pagpipreserba ng pambansang pagkakakilanlan upang makamtan ang pagkakaisa at pambansang kaunlaran; at pagpapamalas ng mga Pilipino sa kakanyahan ng nasyonalismo sa araw-araw na pakikipamuhay.…”