KARACA UMRAH MOTIVATIONS AND EFFETCTS SCALE / KARACA UMRE MOTİVASYONLARI VE ETKİLERİ ÖLÇEĞİ

Increasing interest in umrah worship, especially in recent periods, is also true for Turkish Muslims. Despite not being a religious duty, people having proper opportunities to perform umrah visit have been turning to this worship and ascribe an important mission to it for different reasons. There has been no scale measuring the factors that motivates people towards umrah worship and the effects of this worship on religious lives of umrah visitors whose number achieves millions within a year. In order to satisfy this need, two autonomous scale was developed in this study to measure the umrah motivations and its effects on religious life. Psychometric analysis conducted with the scales showed that both scales were reliable and valid enough. According to factor analysis, Umrah Motivation Scale has two factor structure. The first factor is "Umrah motivations" the second factors is "Umrah preparations". Confirmatory factor analysis made, confirmed two-factor structure of the scale. Umrah Effect Scale ise a single factor structure. Cronbach's alpha, which is regarded as a criterion for internal consistency, is measured as ?=.65 for the Umrah motivations scale (UMS). While the same items were analyzed via split half method, it is seen that the coefficient of correlation is .50. Coefficients measured for Umrah effects scale (UES) are higher. Therefore, the alpha of the related scale is ?=.89, and coefficient of correlations which was measured by split half method is .86.