Finding

 


This finding looks at the relationship between parents’ church attendance and child behavior at school.

Children were less likely to exhibit behavioral problems at school if either of their parents (particularly their mothers) attended religious services and if both parents attended church with the same frequency, whether sporadically or frequently, than children whose parents did not attend religious services at all.


Sample or Data Description
Data came from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Kindergarten Class (ECLS-K) regarding parents' and teachers' reports on 16,000 kindergärtners and first-graders, beginning with the 1998-1999 school year.


Source
"Religion and Child Development: Evidence from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study"
Bartkowski, John P.
Xu, Xiaohe and Levin, Martin L.
Social Science Research Vol. NA, Number . , 2007. Page(s) NA.


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