Research Article

The Impact of Religious Officials on Social Life: A Research on Scale Development, Validity and Reliability

Number: 62 December 24, 2024
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The Impact of Religious Officials on Social Life: A Research on Scale Development, Validity and Reliability

Abstract

Tradition and religion are two important sources that affect the construction and continuity of social relations throughout history. Before the modern period, when the secular social structure was widely accepted, these two sources served as the primary determinant resource of social ties, sometimes alone and frequently together. This study aims to develop a scale to determine the effect of the level of clerics (imams and muezzins) working under the Presidency of Religious Affairs, the institution authorized to serve religious services in Turkey, on social life. In this context, a survey was conducted with 1208 people in 12 provinces and 42 districts, based on a face-to-face interview method. Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) were used to test the reliability and validity of the scale made for this study, in which the universe is taken as a whole. The scale, whose reliability and validity were tested, can be used to assess the impact of religious officials on family, kinship, neighborliness, and work life as well as the impact of religion on state-society relationships.

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Supporting Institution

İnönü Üniversitesi

Project Number

SCD-2019-1642

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Details

Primary Language

English

Subjects

Islamic Studies (Other)

Journal Section

Research Article

Early Pub Date

October 28, 2024

Publication Date

December 24, 2024

Submission Date

May 19, 2024

Acceptance Date

October 25, 2024

Published in Issue

Year 2024 Number: 62

APA
Tuncel, G., Yılmaz, H., Göktolga, O., & Yüzbaşı, B. (2024). The Impact of Religious Officials on Social Life: A Research on Scale Development, Validity and Reliability. İlahiyat Tetkikleri Dergisi, 62, 86-100. https://doi.org/10.29288/ilted.1486541
AMA
1.Tuncel G, Yılmaz H, Göktolga O, Yüzbaşı B. The Impact of Religious Officials on Social Life: A Research on Scale Development, Validity and Reliability. ilted. 2024;(62):86-100. doi:10.29288/ilted.1486541
Chicago
Tuncel, Gökhan, Hasan Yılmaz, Oğuzhan Göktolga, and Bahadir Yüzbaşı. 2024. “The Impact of Religious Officials on Social Life: A Research on Scale Development, Validity and Reliability”. İlahiyat Tetkikleri Dergisi, nos. 62: 86-100. https://doi.org/10.29288/ilted.1486541.
EndNote
Tuncel G, Yılmaz H, Göktolga O, Yüzbaşı B (December 1, 2024) The Impact of Religious Officials on Social Life: A Research on Scale Development, Validity and Reliability. İlahiyat Tetkikleri Dergisi 62 86–100.
IEEE
[1]G. Tuncel, H. Yılmaz, O. Göktolga, and B. Yüzbaşı, “The Impact of Religious Officials on Social Life: A Research on Scale Development, Validity and Reliability”, ilted, no. 62, pp. 86–100, Dec. 2024, doi: 10.29288/ilted.1486541.
ISNAD
Tuncel, Gökhan - Yılmaz, Hasan - Göktolga, Oğuzhan - Yüzbaşı, Bahadir. “The Impact of Religious Officials on Social Life: A Research on Scale Development, Validity and Reliability”. İlahiyat Tetkikleri Dergisi. 62 (December 1, 2024): 86-100. https://doi.org/10.29288/ilted.1486541.
JAMA
1.Tuncel G, Yılmaz H, Göktolga O, Yüzbaşı B. The Impact of Religious Officials on Social Life: A Research on Scale Development, Validity and Reliability. ilted. 2024;:86–100.
MLA
Tuncel, Gökhan, et al. “The Impact of Religious Officials on Social Life: A Research on Scale Development, Validity and Reliability”. İlahiyat Tetkikleri Dergisi, no. 62, Dec. 2024, pp. 86-100, doi:10.29288/ilted.1486541.
Vancouver
1.Gökhan Tuncel, Hasan Yılmaz, Oğuzhan Göktolga, Bahadir Yüzbaşı. The Impact of Religious Officials on Social Life: A Research on Scale Development, Validity and Reliability. ilted. 2024 Dec. 1;(62):86-100. doi:10.29288/ilted.1486541