In the case of the questionnaire for Sri Lanka, where more than one local language, Sinhala and Tamil, are accorded official status by the government, this paper translated it only into Sinhala, considering the relatively larger percentage of Sinhala-speaking individuals in the country. The ...
This paper divides the religious factor into two sub-variables, i.e., individuals’ religious denominations and religiosity, based on prior research. To assess various religious affiliations, this paper employs the WVS’s item inquiring about respondents’ religious denominations.8To gauge religiosity,...