Developing Scales for Measuring Religiosity in the Context of Consumer Research

Middle East Journal of Scientific Research

Volumn 13, Issue SPLISSUE, 2013, Pages 69-74

  Shukor, S Abdul ^a   Jamal, Ahmad ^b  

^a UNIVERSITI SAINS ISLAM MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Consumer Research; Measuring Scale; Religiosity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879488242     PISSN: 19909233     EISSN: 19998147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5829/idosi.mejsr.2013.13.1884     Document Type: Article

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