Adapting the Francis Psychological Type Scales (FPTS) for teachers of religious education in Türkiye
Mental Health, Religion and Culture, 2025 (ESCI, Scopus)
- Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
- Basım Tarihi: 2025
- Doi Numarası: 10.1080/13674676.2025.2475162
- Dergi Adı: Mental Health, Religion and Culture
- Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), Scopus, Academic Search Premier, ATLA Religion Database, CINAHL, Psycinfo, Religion and Philosophy Collection, Social services abstracts, Sociological abstracts
- Anahtar Kelimeler: adaptation for Turkiye, Francis Psychological Type Scales (FPTS), hermeneutical theory, Religious education, The SIFT approach
- Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet
Özet
This paper aims to explore the adaptation of the Francis Psychological Type Scales (FPTS) to the Turkish cultural context and to evaluate the validity and reliability of this instrument among a sample 441 religious education teachers. The FPTS provides a framework for understanding individuals’ psychological type preferences and for examining how these preferences influence their approaches to sacred texts and impacts their way of teaching. The data demonstrated that the Confirmatory Factor Analysis confirmed the four-factor structure of the FPTS, explaining 38% of the total variance. The measures of Attitude (judging or perceiving), Orientation (extraversion or introversion), Perceiving Process (sensing or intuition), and Judging Process (thinking or feeling) demonstrated Cronbach’s Alpha reliability coefficients of. 81,.82,.64, and.79, respectively. These results obtained in the Turkish context provide a significant foundation for the international validity and adaptability of the FPTS.