Indigenous Islamic Belief Questionnaire

Abstract

Objective: The present study was carried out for the development of an Indigenous Islamic Belief Questionnaire (IIBQ).

Research Design: Survey

Place and Duration of Study: Lahore, Pakistan. 12 months.

Sample and Method: In this research a random sample of 370 adults (both male and female) was taken from three different socio-economic status groups of Daata Gunj Bukhsh Town, Lahore.

Results: The KMO =.928 showed the sample adequacy. Varimax rotation gave eight factors, and items were retained on the basis of their factor loadings. The factor loadings ranged from .302-.890. Consequently, seven factors were retained and relabelled according to their emerging themes. One factor was dropped out because it was perceived to fall outside the sphere of our investigations. The inter-scale correlation ranged between (.729-.961) and the alpha coefficient had showed high reliability (.937).

Conclusion: The standardised Islamic belief questionnaire provides a detailed, comprehensive assessment of the religious beliefs for psychologists and clinical psychologists. This IIBQ can be used for counselling purposes because religious issues are considered important for the clients because of being brought up in the Islamic country. Therefore, this questionnaire can be helpful for a psychologist in order to identify the positive and negative effects of religion on Muslims in Pakistan.