What Does the Liberal-Conservative Scale Measure? A Study among Clergy and Laity in the Church of England

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A. Village
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Abstract

The Liberal-Conservative (LIBCON) scale is a seven-point semantic differential scale that has been widely used to measure identity within the Church of England. The history of the development of liberalism in the Church of England suggests that this scale should be associated with specific beliefs and attitudes related to doctrine, moral issues and church practices. This study tests this idea among a sample of 9339 lay and ordained readers of the Church Times (the main newspaper of the Church of England) using twelve summated rating scales measuring a range of beliefs and attitudes. Of these twelve variables, eleven were correlated with the LIBCON scale. Discriminant function analysis produced a linear function of these variables that correctly identified 35% of respondents on the scale, and 69% to within one scale score. The best predictors were scales related to either doctrine or moral issues, and these performed consistently across traditions (Anglo-catholic, Broad church or Evangelical) and between clergy and laity. Scales related to church practices suggested ‘conserving tradition’ was also involved in the liberal-conservative dimension, but this was less so for clergy and for Evangelicals. The scale is commended as an empirical measure of one dimension of Church of England identities, especially if used alongside a parallel scale measuring church tradition.
自由-保守量表衡量的是什么?英国国教神职人员与俗人研究
自由-保守(LIBCON)量表是一个7分的语义差异量表,已被广泛用于衡量英格兰教会内部的身份。英国国教自由主义的发展历史表明,这个尺度应该与教义、道德问题和教会实践相关的具体信仰和态度联系起来。这项研究在9339名《教会时报》(英国国教的主要报纸)的普通读者和圣职读者中测试了这一观点,使用了12个综合评级量表来衡量一系列信仰和态度。在这12个变量中,有11个与LIBCON量表相关。判别函数分析产生了这些变量的线性函数,正确识别了量表上35%的受访者,69%的受访者在一个量表得分内。最好的预测指标是与教义或道德问题相关的量表,这些量表在不同的传统(英国天主教、广教会或福音派)和神职人员与俗人之间的表现一致。与教会实践相关的量表表明,“保护传统”也涉及到自由-保守的维度,但这对神职人员和福音派来说不那么重要。该量表被称赞为英格兰教会身份的一个维度的经验测量,特别是如果与衡量教会传统的平行量表一起使用。
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