Chatters L M, Levin J S, Taylor R J
Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 48109-2029.
J Gerontol. 1992 Nov;47(6):S269-78. doi: 10.1093/geronj/47.6.s269.
This study proposed and tested a measurement model of religiosity among a sample of older (55 years of age and above) Black Americans. This model incorporates three correlated dimensions of religious involvement, termed organizational, nonorganizational, and subjective religiosity. Findings indicate that the proposed model provides a good fit to the data, is preferable to other alternative models, and exhibits convergent validity with respect to exogenous or antecedent variables (age, gender, marital status, income, education, urbanicity, and region) known to predict religious involvement. In addition, these antecedents exhibit stronger effects on subjective religiosity than on the two more behavioral dimensions of religiosity. Interpretation of these status-group differences in religiosity focuses on socialization experiences and social environment factors which may promote a religious world-view.
本研究提出并检验了一个针对年龄较大（55岁及以上）美国黑人样本的宗教虔诚度测量模型。该模型纳入了宗教参与的三个相关维度，即组织性、非组织性和主观宗教虔诚度。研究结果表明，所提出的模型与数据拟合良好，优于其他替代模型，并且在已知可预测宗教参与的外生或先行变量（年龄、性别、婚姻状况、收入、教育程度、城市化程度和地区）方面表现出收敛效度。此外，这些先行变量对主观宗教虔诚度的影响比对宗教虔诚度的另外两个行为维度的影响更强。对宗教虔诚度中这些地位群体差异的解释集中在可能促进宗教世界观的社会化经历和社会环境因素上。
