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Design, Methods, and Sample Characteristics of the Bielefeld Study on Xenosophia and Religion

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In this chapter, design, research methods, and sample of the Bielefeld Study on Xenosophia and Religion in Germany are introduced. After a brief overview of the guiding research questions, the research instruments are described: the standardized scales and items, which were included in our questionnaire that was used to survey 1,534 participants; a series of three Single-category Implicit Association Tests (SC-IATs), which have been used in a subsample of 272 participants; and the Faith Development Interview (FDI), which has been administered to a subsample of 27 participants. Then, the procedure of sampling and the sample characteristics are described. For selecting interviewees for the qualitative part of the study, the quantitative data have been split at the medians of centrality of religiosity and the value axis openness to change vs. conservation, and the participants have been assigned to the four resulting quadrant groups. These quadrant groups are described with respect to differences in demographics and in their profiles of quantitative measures, and the further algorithm of interviewee selection is delineated. The chapter ends with an outlook on the following analyses.

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  1. 1.

    Beside the SC-IAT data, this Bielefeld sample also includes data assessed with a brief scale consisting of ten items measuring social desirability (Stocké, 2003; 2004). As SC-IATs try to assess the rather uncontrolled, implicit attitudes toward a target free of social desirable responding, the Social Desirability Scale has been included in order to check for possible effects of socal desirable responding. Resuls of these analyses will likewise be presented in Chapter 8.

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    In the literature about Schwartz’ (1992; 1994; 2003; 2006; 2012) theory of basic values, the value axis openness to change vs. conservation is usually pictured with openness as the pole on the left and conservation as the pole on the right. Hence, in our profile charts z-values below “0 “ indicate preference for openness to change while z-values above “0“ indicate preference for conservation.

  3. 3.

    The pattern for Islamophobia remains still stable if the Muslim respondents are removed from the analysis (F = 14.24; p ≤ .001).

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Klein, C., Streib, H. (2018). Design, Methods, and Sample Characteristics of the Bielefeld Study on Xenosophia and Religion. In: Streib, H., Klein, C. (eds) Xenosophia and Religion. Biographical and Statistical Paths for a Culture of Welcome. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74564-0_4

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