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(2012) then formulate three “attitudinal statements focusing on attitudes towards money, and
particularly towards planning for the future” (p. 33):
1. I find it more satisfying to spend money than to save it for long term
2. I tend to live for today and let tomorrow take care of itself
3. Money is needed to be spent
Atkinson and Messy’s (2012) definition of financial literacy has been adopted by other
researchers (see for examples Aydin and Selcuk (Aydin & Akben Selcuk, 2019); Douissa
(Douissa, 2020); and Swiecka, et.al, (2020)). Aydin and Selcuk (2019) investigates the connection
between financial literacy, money ethics and time preferences among college students in 12
countries and Swiecka, et.al, (2020) studies financial literacy in Poland. Douissa (Douissa, 2020)
looks at factors affecting college students’ multidimensional financial literacy in the Middle East.
Some new questions were added in Douissa (Douissa, 2020) such as question related to sukuk.
Other studies follows Chen and Volpe’s, (1998) definition of financial literacy (Komara &
Widyastuti, 2019). Chen and Volpe (1998) definition of financial literacy comprises of four major
elements: general knowledge, savings and borrowing, insurance and investments.
Conceptualization of Financial Literacy: Islamic Perspective
As mentioned in the introduction, Islamic finance differs from concept of finance derived
from the Western perspective. Therefore, it is logic to measure financial literacy of Muslims in
the context of Islamic finance. It is not only logic, it is also very important to measure this because
finance aspect must be a concern of every Muslim in the sense that every Muslim should know
the nature of financial transactions they involve in. Under Islamic perspective, quality (i.e.
barakah) is much more important than the quantity (i.e. how much money one has). Finance in
Islam is not a value-free. There are certain basic principles that every Muslim should be aware of.
The problem is that for so long, Muslims have used to life under secular financial system coming
from the West. Many of us maybe more familiar with conventional financial concepts and
instruments instead of financial concept and system derived from Islamic values. The existing
research on this is still very limited.
The literatures on Islamic financial literacy are far less developed compared to the
conventional one (Nawi et al., 2018). The first definition of Islamic financial literacy was given
Abdullah and Anderson (2015). They define Islamic financial literacy as “the stock of knowledge
that one acquire specifically related to Islamic finance concepts and products” (p. 4). Financial
literacy in this sense is equal to financial knowledge. Their definition was adapted from Huston’s
(Huston, 2009) definition of financial knowledge. Derived from this narrow definition, Abdullah
and Anderson (2015) measure Islamic Financial Literacy using nine dimensions and each of them
are then translated into two or more indicators. There are views on banking product, views on
islamic banking product, parents influence on islamic financial product and service, factors
determining investment in securities, views on conventional banking product, attitude on personal
financial management, influence of personal financial management, knowledge on wealth
planning and management, attittude on islamic financial product and service.
With the growing of Islamic finance industry, the narrow definition of Islamic Financial
Literacy given by Abdullah and Anderson (2015) was no longer sufficient. Nawi et al., (2018),
therefore, proposed a conceptual framework to measure Islamic financial literacy which was also
derived from Huston’s (2009) concept of financial literacy.