Construction of a Religious Identity Status Questionnaire
Construction o a Religious Identity Status Questionnaire

Summary/Abstract: This study presents a construction and psychometric evaluation of the Religious IdentityStatus Questionnaire – RISQ for the assessment of the religious identity status according toMarcia’s ego identity status approach. The initial item pool was generated based on Erikson’stheory of psychosocial development, Marcia’s ego identity status approach and interviewswith adolescents and young adults. A factor analysis of the initial item pool was performedon data obtained from a sample of 394 secondary school and university students from Serbiato select items for the questionnaire. Validity of the questionnaire was examined on a sampleof 1155 subjects. The results of the CFA suggest that subscales of the RISQ measure fourfactors corresponding to the identity statuses of Marcia’s model. Correlations with ideologicalidentity subscales of the EOM–EIS–2 suggest the convergent validity of the questionnaire.Configural measurement invariance was established for gender and denominational groups.Metric invariance was established for gender and among orthodox and catholic participants,whereas scalar invariance was established for gender, but not for denominational groups.

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