- M10CQ
- INSTRUCTIONS: The statements listed below describe
beliefs which people may hold. There are no right or wrong answers, only your own
responses. For each item, indicate the extent to which you agree or disagree with that
statement. Use the following scale to provide your responses:
- A = Strongly Disagree.
- B = Slightly Disagree.
- C = Neither.
- D = Slightly Agree.
- E = Strongly Agree.
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1. It's important to have faith in God (i.e., the Judeo-Christian deity).
- 2. It's wrong to curse using God's name.
- 3. It's immoral for people to work on Sunday.
- 4. Children should respect their parents.
- 5. It's wrong for people to kill others.
- 6. Adultery is an immoral act.
- 7. People should not steal from others.
- 8. It's wrong to tell a lie about others.
- 9. It's immoral to lust after another person's spouse.
- 10. To envy others because of what they own is wrong.
- 11. It's wrong to give one's religious allegiance to idols
rather than to the Christian deity.
- 12. People should not take God's name in vain.
- 13. The Lord's day (Sunday) is meant to be holy.
- 14. It's important for children to honor their father and
mother.
- 15. Putting people to death is immoral.
- 16. It's improper for married person to have sex with a
person other than their spouse.
- 17. To rob others of their possessions is wrong.
- 18. It's important to tell the truth about people when
talking about them.
- 19. To covet a person's wife or husband is a sin.
- 20. It's immoral to have greed for another person's
possessions.
- 21. People who worship any deity other than the Christian
God are being led astray.
- 22. It's inappropriate for someone to use the phrase,
"God damn it."
- 23. To work on Sunday (God's day) means to do wrong.
- 24. Children should be grateful to their mother and father.
- 25. Committing murder is a sinful crime.
- 26. Extra-marital affairs are wrong.
- 27. Theft is an immoral crime.
- 28. It's not all that bad to say untruthful things about
others.
- 29. There's nothing wrong with longing for another person's
husband or wife.
- 30. People should not feel jealous about what others own.
- 31. There are no other divine beings other than God (as in
the Bible).
- 32. The use of God's name with profanity is immoral.
- 33. A person who runs a business on Sunday is not living a
good Christian life.
- 34. Parents should be treated with respect by their
children.
- 35. To take someone's life is an act of extreme wrongdoing.
- 36. An individual who has a sexual affair with a married
person is being sinful.
- 37. It's sinful to take what belongs to someone else.
- 38. It's immoral to be deceitful with other people.
- 39. A person who has a sexual desire for a friend's marriage
partner is immoral.
- 40. It's a sin to begrudge others because they have
something you want.
- 41. Those who pray to deities other than the Christian God
are worshiping false gods.
- 42. It's sacrilegious to use God's name to damn others.
- 43. To conduct business on a Sunday is equivalent to
committing a sin.
- 44. Children ought to praise and admire their parents.
- 45. It's evil for a person to slay another individual.
- 46. People should not commit adultery.
- 47. Stealing from others is a moral sin.
- 48. Those who say false things about their friends are
committing a sin.
- 49. It's not right to sexually desire the spouse of a
married friend.
- 50. A person ought not to wish for what others have.
- Copyright - 1995
- Scoring Instructions for
the Multidimensional Ten Commandments
Questionnaire (M10CQ):
-
- The Ten Commandments Questionnaire consists of the following 10
subscales (5 items per subscale), designed to measure how much people agree (versus
disagree) with each of the 10 Commandments discuss in the Bible:
I. Commandment # 1: (Items 1, 11, 21, 31, 41).
II. Commandment # 2: (Items 2, 12, 22, 32, 42).
III. Commandment # 3 : (Items 3, 13, 23, 33, 43).
IV. Commandment # 4: (Items 4, 14, 24, 34, 44).
V. Commandment # 5: (Items 5, 15, 25, 35, 45).
VI. Commandment # 6: (Items 6, 16, 26, 36, 46).
VII. Commandment # 7: (Items 7, 17, 27, 37, 47).
VIII. Commandment # 8: (Items 8, 18, 28, 38, 48).
IX. Commandment # 9: (Items 9, 19, 29, 39, 49).
X. Commandment # 10: (Items 10, 20, 30, 40, 50).
- CODING INSTRUCTIONS FOR
THE MULTIDIMENSIONAL TEN COMMANDMENTS QUESTIONNAIRE (M10CQ):
- First, the items assigned to each
subscale are coded so that A = -2, B = -1, C = 0, D = +1, and E = +2.
Items 28 and 29 are then reverse-coded. Next the 5
items assigned to each TCQ scale are summed, so that larger positive scores on each of the
TCQ subscales correspond to greater agreement with each of the Ten Commandments, and
larger negative scores on each of the TCQ subscales indicate greater disagreement with
each of the Ten Commandments.
- The Ten Commandments
Questionnaire (TCQ) was designed to measure the extent to which people believe in each of
the Ten Commandments specified in the Bible. The first commandment states that God is
one’s God and that people shall have no other gods before Him. The second commandment
states that one shall not make any idols and that one shall not worship these idols. The
third commandment states one shall not take the Lord’s name in vain. The fourth
commandment states that one should remember the Sabbath and keep it holy. The fifth
commandment states that one should honor one’s mother and father. The sixth
commandment states that one shall not kill. The seventh commandment states that one shall
not steal. The eighth commandment states that one should not commit adultery. The ninth
commandment states that one shall not lie against one’s neighbor. The tenth
commandment states that one shall not want one’s neighbor’s property. The
subscale for each commandment consisted of five statements, for a total of 50 items on the
Ten Commandments Questionnaire. A 5-point Likert scale was used to measure the
subject’s responses: a) strongly disagree (-2); b) slightly disagree (-1); c) neither
agree or disagree (0); d) slightly agree (+1); and e) strongly agree (+2). Subscale scores
were based on a summation of the responses to the five items on each subscale (range: 10
to 50). Higher positive (versus negative) subscale scores indicated greater agreement
(versus greater disagreement) with each respective commandment .
- ABSTRACT
- The Multidimensional Ten Commandments Questionnaire (M10CQ):
Construction and Initial Evidence for Reliability and Validity
William E. Snell, Jr.
- A study (Snell, 1995) was conducted to examine the
relationship between people's personal belief in the Ten Commandments and their level of
stress and distress. It was anticipated that belief in the Ten Commandments would be
negatively related to the level of stress and distress reported by individual’s in
their lives. The participants (total n = 137; 68 females; 66 males; 3 who did not
identify their gender) were given a series of questionnaires to complete. A series of
correlations was computed to examine the relationship between people's scores on the Ten
Commandments Questionnaire (TCQ) and their level of stress and distress. For the combined
sample of both males and females, a negative correlation was found between people's stress
and distress and their belief of the Ten Commandments. Also, among males only, a negative
correlation was found between their level of stress and distress and their belief
of the Ten Commandments. By contrast, among females, there was only one of the Ten
Commandment that had a negative correlation with their stress and distress. The discussion
on the need for future research with the Ten Commandments Questionnaire (TCQ).
Additional results from a web-based study should become available
after the Spring of 2004.
Explicit written permission
must be obtained
from Dr. William E. Snell, Jr.
to use the Multidimensional Ten Commandments Questionnaire (M10CQ).
(copyright, 1995).
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