THE VALIDITY AND RELIABILITY STUDY OF SCALE OF THEOLOGIANS'S APPROACH OF THE HADITH (STAH)

In this study Scale of Theologians's Approach of the Hadith (STAH) reliability and validity analyses are presented. The data was collected by two applications. First application was conducted on 478 students and academicians from different theology faculties. The exploratory factor analysis which made with the data of this application shows that STAH consists of 16 items and one factor. The fitch indexes of the confirmatory factor analysis which made with the data of the second application conducted on 229 persons are X2 = 380.78, Df = 104 P Value: 0.00, X2 /df = 3.66, RMSEA, .075; NFI, .97; NNFI, 0.98; CFI ,0.98; IFI, .91; GFI, .91; AGFI, .88; RMR, .038 ve SRMR: .039. Cronbach’s Alpha coefficient of the scale is .932. These scores show that STAH is reliable and valid