Family Facts: Social Science Research on Family, Society & Religion

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This finding looks at the relationship between family satisfaction and adolescents’ attendance of religious services and valuation of religious faith.

Being satisfied with their families was associated with adolescents’ religious attendance and the importance they attached to religious faith. Adolescents who reported greater satisfaction with their families were more likely to attend religious services and consider religion to be important than those who were less satisfied with their families. In addition, improvement in teens’ family satisfaction corresponded with increased attendance of religious service and assigning more importance to religious faith.

Sample or Data Description
Data come from two waves of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (1995 and 1996), a study of adolescents in grades 7 to 12.

Source
"Social Context in the Development of Adolescent Religiosity"
Regnerus, Mark D.
Smith, Christian, and Smith, Brad
Applied Developmental Science Vol. 8, Number 1. , 2004. Page(s) 27-38.

FindingID: 8342