Religiosity was assessed using Muslim BIAC (M.BIAC) scale (25 (link)). The original study of BIAC in English was conducted on female caregivers living in the Southeastern and Western USA. This study demonstrated that BIAC has solid psychometric properties with excellent internal consistency, test–retest reliability, and convergent validity (26 (link)).
The BIAC consists of 10 questions, with each rated on a scale ranging from 1 to 10, except the first question which is scored 1 or 10 depending on the response. The total scale score ranges from 10 to 100. Item 1 directly asked respondents to choose their highest priority in life, with common priorities among the response options ranging from their health to their family (including God). The remaining items assess attendance at religious services, religious social involvement besides attending religious services, decision to place life under God's requirements, percentage of annual income given two religious causes, time spent listening/viewing religious media, time spent reading religious books and scriptures, time spent in prayer or meditation, time spent in religious volunteering, and the degree to which life is being conformed to one's religious teachings (27 (link)). The Arabic version of BIAC was published in 2016 (28 (link)).
Rammouz et al. (25 (link)) studied the Moroccan Arabic version of the Muslim BIAC on a sample of 132 students at Ibn Zohr University, Agadir, Morocco. The Cronbach's alpha for internal reliability was 0.81, with the alpha for removed items ranging from 0.77 to 0.82. Test–retest reliability by intra-class correlation coefficient (ICC) was 0.87 (95% CI = 0.83–0.91). Discriminant validity indicated relatively weak correlations between depressive symptoms (r = −0.06) and perceived stress (r = 0.08) (25 (link)).
The BIAC consists of 10 questions, with each rated on a scale ranging from 1 to 10, except the first question which is scored 1 or 10 depending on the response. The total scale score ranges from 10 to 100. Item 1 directly asked respondents to choose their highest priority in life, with common priorities among the response options ranging from their health to their family (including God). The remaining items assess attendance at religious services, religious social involvement besides attending religious services, decision to place life under God's requirements, percentage of annual income given two religious causes, time spent listening/viewing religious media, time spent reading religious books and scriptures, time spent in prayer or meditation, time spent in religious volunteering, and the degree to which life is being conformed to one's religious teachings (27 (link)). The Arabic version of BIAC was published in 2016 (28 (link)).
Rammouz et al. (25 (link)) studied the Moroccan Arabic version of the Muslim BIAC on a sample of 132 students at Ibn Zohr University, Agadir, Morocco. The Cronbach's alpha for internal reliability was 0.81, with the alpha for removed items ranging from 0.77 to 0.82. Test–retest reliability by intra-class correlation coefficient (ICC) was 0.87 (95% CI = 0.83–0.91). Discriminant validity indicated relatively weak correlations between depressive symptoms (r = −0.06) and perceived stress (r = 0.08) (25 (link)).
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