@article{2014,title={MEASURING IMAGE OF GOD IN CHILDREN},abstractNode={The goal of this two-staged study was to beter understand how children conceive of God. In the frst stage of this study children were asked, “what comes to mind when you hear the word God’?” Their answers to this queston were organized according to frequency and classifed into three separate groups according to the nature of the response. In the second stage of this study a questonnaire was developed by surveying the literature in the feld in connecton to the responses obtained from the children. The original questonnaire of 58 items was then reviewed on the basis of other research in the feld and sent to experts for comment. The fnal questonnaire used in this study was reduced to 50 items and was prepared for implementaton. This questonnaire was then given to a group of 600 people selected for this study. The results of this preliminary test were then subjected to an exploratory factor analysis with atenton to the theoretcal structure of the questonnaire. On the basis of these results, the questonnaire was reduced to 28 items with four sub-scales, and its validity was determined. In order to determine the reliability of the questonnaire, the internal correlaton of its items was calculated, with a Cronbach alpha (crα) value of 0.73. Additonally, the questonnaire was implemented in a different 20-person group on two separate occasions and fndings showing the test re-test reliability of the questonnaire were obtained. For the confrmatory factor analysis, a separate group of 398 students, of similar characteristcs to the sample group was selected. As part of the 398 partcipant reliability study of the confrmatory factor analysis, the internal consistency coefcient for responses obtained for Item 28 was 0.78. },author={ -Mualla YILDIZ - Recep Serkan ARIK },year={2014},journal={Toplum Bilimleri Dergisi}}