2009/03/25 by Sherman A. Lee, Jeffrey A. Gibbons, John M. Thompson +1 · 4 citations
Social Sciences · Health Professions · Psychology · #Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology #Social and Intergroup Psychology #Community Health and Development #Islamophobia #Scale (ratio) #Psychology #Political science #Geography #Cartography #Law
paper · doi:10.1080/10508610802711137
openalex publication_date 2009/03/25 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/29
Opinion poll research suggests that a significant number of Westerners hold negative and fearful perceptions toward Muslims and their religion. Although evidence of Islamophobia has been documented in a number of poll studies, no psychometrically based, multifaceted measure that focuses exclusively on fear related attitudes and is not confounded with a particular group currently exists in the scientific literature. The authors of this study describe the development and psychometric properties of the Islamophobia Scale, which measures cognitive and affective-behavioral facets of fear-related attitudes toward the religion of Islam and Muslims. The results of the study demonstrate a measure of Islamophobia that yielded acceptable psychometric properties of reliability and validity.