Islamophobia can be measured as fear-related attitudes on a validated scale

Evidence

The Islamophobia Scale (IS) is a self-report measure of an individual’s fear-related attitudes toward Muslims and the religion of Islam (S. A. Lee, J. A. Gibbons, J. M. Thompson, & H. S. Timani, 2009, The Islamophobia Scale: Instrument development and initial validation, International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, Vol. 19, pp. 92–105). In order to further validate the psychometric properties of the IS, the current study conducted a confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and a test–retest reliability analysis (Study 1), a multitrait–multimethod (MTMM) study (Study 2), and an incremental validation study (Study 3). — Sherman A. Lee, Chelsea A. Reid, Stephen D. Short, Jeffrey A. Gibbons, Ruth Yeh, and Matthew L. Campbell, Fear of Muslims, 6

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the Islamophobia Scale as a self-report instrument capturing fear-related attitudes toward Muslims and Islam.
• XREF: Connects to work on prejudice and attitude measurement, and to The Reluctant Fundamentalist for the lived texture of anti-Muslim fear.