Temporal Stability of the Francis Scale of Attitude Toward Christianity Short-Form: Test-Retest Data over One Week Descriptors: Test-retest reliability

Over the last 25 years, there have been more than 200 published studies examining the measurement, correlates, and consequences of variation in attitude toward Christianity among children, adolescents, and

5 adults (see Kay & Francis, 1996). At the centre of this work has been the 24-item Francis Scale of Attitude toward Christianity (Francis & Stubbs, 1987). Subsequently, Francis, Greer, and Gibson (1991) developed a 7-item short-form of the scale, intended to be a re-

1 0 placement for the full version when administration time is short. This short-form has demonstrated good psychometric properties (Francis, 1993 ), including high internal consistency (Lewis, 2001 ), a one-factor structure (Lewis, Shevlin, Lloyd, & Adamson, 1998), high

15 positive correlations with attitudinal and behavioural measures of religiosity (Maltby & Lewis, 1997), and is not affected by social desirability (Lewis, 1999, 2000).