Publication Date
In 2025 | 0 |
Since 2024 | 0 |
Since 2021 (last 5 years) | 2 |
Since 2016 (last 10 years) | 5 |
Since 2006 (last 20 years) | 10 |
Descriptor
Protestants | 13 |
Foreign Countries | 12 |
Adolescents | 7 |
Catholics | 7 |
Christianity | 7 |
Catholic Schools | 6 |
Student Attitudes | 6 |
Attitude Measures | 5 |
Gender Differences | 5 |
Religious Factors | 5 |
Beliefs | 4 |
More ▼ |
Source
Author
Publication Type
Journal Articles | 13 |
Reports - Research | 11 |
Reports - Evaluative | 2 |
Education Level
Secondary Education | 5 |
Grade 10 | 1 |
Grade 9 | 1 |
Higher Education | 1 |
Audience
Practitioners | 1 |
Researchers | 1 |
Teachers | 1 |
Location
United Kingdom (Northern… | 7 |
Australia | 2 |
United Kingdom (England) | 2 |
Canada | 1 |
United Kingdom (Scotland) | 1 |
United Kingdom (Wales) | 1 |
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
Junior Eysenck Personality… | 1 |
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Fawcett, Bruce G.; Francis, Leslie J.; McKenna, Ursula – Journal of Research on Christian Education, 2021
This paper explores the impact of parental religious practice on sustaining positive religious affect among churchgoing young Canadian Baptists. A total of 299 participants between the ages of 12 and 18 years attending a summer youth programme sponsored by the Canadian Baptists of Atlantic Canada, completed the Francis Scale of Attitude toward…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Protestants, Parent Child Relationship, Attendance
Francis, Leslie J.; McKenna, Ursula; Lewis, Christopher Alan – Journal of Religious Education, 2020
John Greer first introduced the Francis Scale of Attitude toward Christianity in 1979 into his programme of research designed to chart the religious trajectory of students attending Protestant and Catholic schools in Northern Ireland. The present study conducted in 2011 builds on earlier studies conducted in 1979, 1984, the early 1990s, and 1998.…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Catholic Schools, Christianity, Attitude Measures
McKinney, Stephen; Francis, Leslie J.; McKenna, Ursula – Journal of Beliefs & Values, 2021
Sectarianism is perceived as a serious issue in Scotland despite a lack of concrete evidence, according to the Advisory Group on Tackling Sectarianism. This paper addresses one of the gaps in knowledge, the attitudes of Catholic school pupils. Our research was designed to profile sectarian attitudes among a sample of Catholic school pupils in…
Descriptors: Catholic Schools, Catholics, Protestants, Religious Factors
Francis, Leslie J.; Penny, Gemma; Powell, Ruth – Journal of Beliefs & Values, 2018
Drawing on data from the 2011 Australian National Church Life Survey (NCLS), this study was designed to assess peer and parental influence on frequency of church attendance, attitude toward church, and attitude toward Christianity among a sample of 6256 young churchgoers between the ages of eight and 14 years, attending a range of denominations,…
Descriptors: Peer Influence, Parent Influence, Churches, Attendance
Francis, Leslie J.; Penny, Gemma – Journal of Research on Christian Education, 2016
Drawing on data from the 2011 Australian National Church Life Survey, this study was designed to assess the connection between religious affect (as a measure of Christian commitment) and global happiness (as a measure of personal well being) among a sample of 6,194 young churchgoers in Australia between the ages of 8 and 14 years, attending a…
Descriptors: Christianity, Churches, Foreign Countries, Religious Factors
Francis, Leslie J.; Village, Andrew – Irish Educational Studies, 2015
Northern Ireland has been and remains a religiously divided community. This study sets out to examine outgroup prejudice among a sample of 1799 13-15-year-old students attending Catholic or Protestant schools and employs both bivariate analyses and hierarchical modelling to chart the associations between outgroup prejudice and personal factors…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Catholic Schools, Protestants
Kay, William K.; Francis, Leslie J. – Journal of Beliefs & Values, 2008
A sample of 122 female students attending a Pentecostal Bible College in England completed Form G (Anglicised) of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI). The data demonstrated preferences for extraversion over introversion, for sensing over intuition, for feeling over thinking, and for judging over perceiving. The predominant type was ISFJ (16%),…
Descriptors: Church Related Colleges, Protestants, Personality Traits, College Students
Francis, Leslie J.; Robbins, Mandy; Barnes, L. Philip; Lewis, Christopher A. – British Journal of Religious Education, 2006
The aim of the present study was to build on John Greer's systematic set of studies concerned with teenage beliefs and values conducted among samples of sixth form students attending County and Protestant voluntary schools in Northern Ireland in 1968, 1978 and 1988. The present study replicated the earlier surveys for a further time in 1998. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parochial Schools, Protestants, Religion
Francis, Leslie J.; Robbins, Mandy; Lewis, Christopher Alan; Barnes, L. Philip; Sion, Tania ap – Educational Research, 2007
Background: Northern Ireland is a province that remains deeply divided between Protestants and Catholics and maintains a segregated system of schools. Purpose: The research builds on a series of studies conducted in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s to monitor the attitude toward Christianity of males and females educated in Protestant and Catholic…
Descriptors: Catholic Schools, Protestants, Catholics, Females
Robbins, Mandy; Francis, Leslie J. – Research in Education, 2008
This study draws together two research traditions: John Greer's pioneering research among pupils in Protestant and Catholic schools in Northern Ireland and Leslie J. Francis's research concerning teenage religion and values in England and Wales. A sample of 1,585 13- to 15-year-old male pupils attending Catholic schools (n = 712) and Protestant…
Descriptors: Catholic Schools, Protestants, Catholics, World Views
Robbins, Mandy; Francis, Leslie J. – Journal of Research on Christian Education, 2005
The present study has built on three earlier studies reported by Francis and Burton (1994), Francis and Evans (1996), and Francis (2005) to test the hypothesis that there is a positive correlation between frequency of prayer and perceived purpose in life among 13-to 15-year-old young people who are within a community with high levels of church…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Religious Factors, Catholics, Protestants

Francis, Leslie J.; Greer, John E. – Research in Science and Technological Education, 1999
Reports on a study of pupils (n=1549) aged 13 to 16 attending 12 Protestant and 12 Catholic schools in Northern Ireland and their attitudes toward science. Concludes that girls, oldest students, and pupils in Catholic schools hold less positive attitudes toward science in the school curriculum and towards science as a career. Contains 36…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Catholic Schools, Foreign Countries, Protestants

Francis, Leslie J.; Greer, John E. – Journal of Moral Education, 1992
Presents survey findings concerning the moral and religious attitudes of Northern Ireland's adolescents. Seeks to develop reliability and validity criteria for a scale of traditional Christian values. Concludes that Catholic school students are more likely to hold traditional values than are Protestant school students. (DK)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Attitude Measures, Beliefs, Catholics