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Development Of An Instrument To Measure Student Attitudes Toward God Using Semantic Differential, Joyce A. Morse
Development Of An Instrument To Measure Student Attitudes Toward God Using Semantic Differential, Joyce A. Morse
Master's Theses
The study had two objectives
(1) to construct an instrument, which would, measure students' attitudes toward God, and
(2) to use the instrument in a small pilot study to test its usefulness.
The instrument was patterned after the format of Osgood's Semantic Differential and each subject was asked to make judgments on five different concepts about God. Each concept was judged by pairs of bipolar adjectives on a rating scale of one to five, with five, being the most-positive.. The thirteen bipolar adjective pairs used in the. final .instrument were used only after two item analyses proved them to be …