RT Article
T1 Young people’s attitudes to religious diversity: quantitative approaches from social psychology and empirical theology
JF Journal of beliefs and values
VO 33
IS 3
SP 279
OP 292
A1 Francis, Leslie   J.
A1 Croft, Jennifer   S.
A1 Pyke, Alice
A1 Robbins, Mandy
A2 Croft, Jennifer   S.
A2 Pyke, Alice
A2 Robbins, Mandy
LA English
YR 2012
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1837736030
AB This essay discusses the design of the quantitative component of the ‘Young People’s Attitudes to Religious Diversity’ project, conceived by Professor Robert Jackson within the Warwick Religions and Education Research Unit, and presents some preliminary findings from the data. The quantitative component followed and built on the qualitative component within a mixed method design. The argument is advanced in seven steps: introducing the major sources of theory on which the quantitative approach builds from the psychology of religion and from empirical theology; locating the empirical traditions of research among young people that have shaped the study; clarifying the notions and levels of measurement employed in the study anticipating the potential for various forms of data analysis; discussing some of the established measures incorporated in the survey; defining the ways in which the sample was structured to reflect the four nations of the UK, and London; illustrating the potential within largely descriptive cross-tabulation forms of analysis; and illustrating the potential within more sophisticated multivariate analytic models.
K1 Adolescents
K1 Empirical Theology
K1 psychology of religion
K1 quantitative research
K1 Religious Diversity
DO 10.1080/13617672.2012.732808