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Table 1 Published translations of the Duke Religion Index by region and language

From: Religiousness worldwide: translation of the Duke University Religion Index into 20 languages and validation across 27 nations

Region

Language

N

Sample type

Internal structure

Scales used

Convergent validity

Associations

Citation

South America

Portuguese

439

Community

α

Three

-

-

Lucchetti et al., 2012

 

French Creole

55

Community

CFA

Total score

Index of Religiousness

Marginality, education, household income

Gonzales et al., 2015

North America

Spanish

30

Community

CFA

Total score

Gonzales et al., 2015

Asia (South East)

Malay

173

University

EFA, α, test-retest reliability

Total score

-

Religious coping, health, depression, anxiety, stress

Nurasikin et al., 2010

Thai

800

University

α

Three

-

Eating disorders

Pengpid et al., 2015

Asia (East)

Chinese

2425

Community

α, EFA, CFA, test-retest reliability

Total score

-

-

Chen et al., 2014

Chinese

1285 & 2564

University & Community

α, PCA, test-retest reliability

Three

-

-

Wang et al., 2014

 

Japanese

53

University

CFA

Total score

Index of Relig.

Marginality, education, income

Gonzales et al., 2015

Austronesia

Tagalog

36

Community

CFA

Total score

Gonzales et al., 2015

Europe

Polish

416

University

α, PCA, test-retest

Total score

-

-

Dobrowolska et al., 2016

Ukrainian

21

Community

CFA

Total score

Index of Relig.

Marginality, education, income

Gonzales et al., 2015

 

Italian

54

Outpatients

None

Total score

 

Suicide ideation

De Berardis et al., 2020

 

Portuguese

150

Community

α, EFA

Total score

Belief into Action Scale

-

Martins et al., 2021

 

German

123

Psychiatric

α

Three

 

Influence of religiosity/spirituality of psychiatrists on patient’s health

Lee & Baumann, 2013

Middle East

Farsi

984

University

α, , test-retest reliability

Total score

Hoge Intrinsic Religiosity

-

Hafizi et al., 2014

 

Arabic

20

Community

CFA

Total score

Index of Relig.

Marginality, education, income

Gonzales et al., 2015

 

Persian

1762 & 796

University

α, EFA, CFA, test-retest reliability

Total score

Strength of Faith Q.

-

Saffari et al., 2013

  1. Note. Emphasis in this table is on translations; the many studies published in English are not included. PCA principal component analysis, CFA confirmatory factor analysis, EFA exploratory factor analysis. We searched for translations in Google Scholar using the name of the index, its acronym, and the terms “validation” or “translation,” as well as the names of many commonly used languages in research.