TY - JOUR
T1 - The prevalence of extreme middle eastern ideologies around the world
AU - Loza, Wagdy
AU - Abd-El-Fatah, Youssef
AU - Prinsloo, Johan
AU - Hesselink-Louw, Anni
AU - Seidler, Katie
PY - 2011/1
Y1 - 2011/1
N2 - The Belief Diversity Scale (BDS) was administered to Australian, Canadian, Egyptian, and South African participants of different religious backgrounds. The BDS is a 33-item, six subscale instrument that is designed to quantitatively measure Middle Eastern extremist ideologies on risk areas that are reported in the literature. Results demonstrated the reliability and validity of the BDS, thus suggesting that the BDS could be used as an objective tool to measure Middle Eastern extremist ideologies. Results also supported the hypothesis of prevalence of Middle Eastern extremist ideologies around different parts of the world.
AB - The Belief Diversity Scale (BDS) was administered to Australian, Canadian, Egyptian, and South African participants of different religious backgrounds. The BDS is a 33-item, six subscale instrument that is designed to quantitatively measure Middle Eastern extremist ideologies on risk areas that are reported in the literature. Results demonstrated the reliability and validity of the BDS, thus suggesting that the BDS could be used as an objective tool to measure Middle Eastern extremist ideologies. Results also supported the hypothesis of prevalence of Middle Eastern extremist ideologies around different parts of the world.
KW - community violence
KW - hate crimes
KW - spirituality and violence
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=79851506880&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/0886260510363417
DO - 10.1177/0886260510363417
M3 - Article
C2 - 20448230
AN - SCOPUS:79851506880
SN - 0886-2605
VL - 26
SP - 522
EP - 538
JO - Journal of Interpersonal Violence
JF - Journal of Interpersonal Violence
IS - 3
ER -