Attitude towards zakah on employment income: Comparing outcomes between single score and multidimensional scores

• Main Authors: Md. Idris, Kamil, Ayob, Ahmad Mahdzan
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universiti Utara Malaysia 2001
• Subjects: BP Islam. Bahaism. Theosophy, etc
• Online Access: http://repo.uum.edu.my/486/1/Kamil_Md_Idris.pdf; http://repo.uum.edu.my/486/; http://mmj.uum.edu.my

Study on attitude towards regulated social avtivities have been carried out in many areas (such as tax and zakah payment). However, many of these studies applied a single score of attitude in their analyses. Such a procedure, to some researchers in considered less informative, especially in the study of a complex attitude which has several dimensions. many researchers have suggested that attitude towards a complex object should be studied by decomposing the object or issue into smaller and less complex elements on the basis oof component parts, specific functions, or particular contexts. Thus, this paper offers a comparative study of outcomes between attitude measured by a single summative score and attitude measured by multidimensional factor scores. The object of attitude in this paper is zakah on employment income by eligible Muslim. In the first approach, a total of 24 items of attitude were used to represent the single score of attitude.