PUB - Publikationen an der Universität Bielefeld

In this chapter, design, research methods, and sample of the Bielefeld Study on Xenosophia and Religion in Germany are introduced. After a brief over-view of the guiding research questions, the research instruments are described: the standardized scales and items, which were included in our questionnaire that was used to survey 1,534 participants; a series of three Single-category Implicit Asso-ciation Tests (SC-IATs), which have been used in a subsample of n = 272 partici-pants; the Faith Development Interview (FDI), which has been administered to a subsample of n = 27 participants. Then, the procedure of sampling and the sample characteristics are described. For selecting interviewees for the qualitative part of the study, the quantitative data have been split at the medians of centrality of religiosity and the value axis openness to change vs. conservation, and the participants have been assigned to the four resulting quadrant groups. These quadrant groups are described with respect to differences in demographics and in their profiles of quantitative measures, and the further algorithm of interviewee selection is deline-ated. The chapter ends with an outlook on the following analyses.