Development and Validation of Muslims Religious Orientation Scale

Abstract

The motivation behind current examination was to create a multidimensional measure of Muslims Religious Orientation in Urdu language. The phenomena of religious orientation were operationalized and explored from 40 participants through semi structure interviews. After scrutinizing, the list of 40 items was converted in self report measure (MROS: Muslim Religious Orientation Scale) and administered to 400 participants with age range 18-25 for early adults (M= 19.5, SD= 2.9) and 50-70 for elders (M=58.5, SD = 14.3) who were approached through purposive sampling (56% males & 44% female). Exploratory factor analysis determined the factor structure and confirmatory factor analysis confirmed the 22 items with three well-defined factors of Extrinsic, Quest, and Intrinsic Religious Orientation. Alpha reliabilities of sub-scales ranged from .60 to .94. Concurrent validity of MROS was determined by assessing its relation with Urdu translated Revised Religious Orientation Scale (Khan, Ghous & Malik, 2016). The findings support that newly constructed measure has promising psychometric properties. The result of study with reference to culture and interventions related to religious counselling were also discussed