The Psychometric Characteristics of the Concept of God Questionnaire

Considering the fact that the perception of the concept of God is one of the means of people's recognition of religious beliefs, this research seeks to conduct an initial examination of the psychometric characteristics of the questionnaire on the concept of God among students. The sample includes 502 students from shiraz Universities (including 281 female students and 221 male students) aged 18 to 35. They were chosen through random cluster sampling. Following the translation and initial preparation of the questionnaire about the concept of God, it was distributed among and completed by the subjects. For assessing the validity the study made use of a retest and Cronbach's Alpha. The validity of the retest and Alpha's amount of the whole questionnaire was 0/79 and 0/71 respectively. Also, both the construct validity and content validity of the questionnaire were obvious. In general, the results of this study shows that the questionnaire about the concept of God is reliable and can be used for evaluating religious beliefs and it is fitting to Iranian students.