Functional equivalence and validity of religiousness indicators in cross-cultural comparative surveys
Abstract: Cross-cultural comparative surveys have become an important tool to investigate social attitudes across different countries. However, this methodology is confronted with a number of challenges. One of the core problems is the functional equivalence of the concepts and indicators used. In this article, we study this problem in regard to the investigation of religiousness in three prominent surveys, the World Value Survey, the International Social Survey Programme, and the Religion Monitor. Our contribution starts with the fundamental question of the intercultural meaning of single items that are commonly used for the measurement of religiosity. From the comparison of the linguistic formulation of these items in different languages and across the three surveys, we obtain evidence of whether the concept of religiousness has the same meaning in different countries and to what extent the results depend on the formulation of the item. Subsequently, we use confirmatory factor analysis to
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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
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Online-Ressource
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Anmerkungen
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Veröffentlichungsversion
begutachtet (peer reviewed)
In: Methodological Innovations ; 9 (2016) ; 12
- Klassifikation
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Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Mannheim
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2016
- Urheber
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Höllinger, Franz
Eder, Anja
- DOI
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10.1177/2059799115622756
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urn:nbn:de:101:1-2019052811454835573820
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Open Access; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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14.08.2025, 10:56 MESZ
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Beteiligte
- Höllinger, Franz
- Eder, Anja
Entstanden
- 2016
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