Myers Candice A
Pennington Biomedical Research Center.
Cogent Soc Sci. 2016;2(1). doi: 10.1080/23311886.2016.1234670. Epub 2016 Sep 20.
This study integrates research in the civic community tradition and structuralist and individualist perspectives on poverty to assess the relationship between religious-based civic community structures and family poverty in the United States. Using multilevel analyses of 2006-2008 American Community Survey, 2000 Census of Population and Housing, and 2000 Religious Congregations and Membership Survey data, results demonstrate that the presence of Mainline Protestant and Catholics adherents within communities - measured as the percentage of a community's population comprised of Mainline Protestant and Catholic adherents - is significantly and negatively associated with family poverty risks, net of other family and community factors. That is, in communities with a greater presence of Mainline Protestants and Catholics, there were also lower risks of families being in poverty. These findings suggest the importance of the ecology of religion within communities in understanding poverty outcomes for families.
本研究整合了公民社区传统研究以及关于贫困的结构主义和个人主义观点，以评估美国基于宗教的公民社区结构与家庭贫困之间的关系。利用对2006 - 2008年美国社区调查、2000年人口与住房普查以及2000年宗教团体与成员调查数据的多层次分析，结果表明，社区内主流新教徒和天主教徒的存在——以社区人口中主流新教徒和天主教徒所占百分比衡量——在扣除其他家庭和社区因素后，与家庭贫困风险显著负相关。也就是说，在主流新教徒和天主教徒占比更高的社区，家庭陷入贫困的风险也更低。这些发现表明，社区内宗教生态对于理解家庭贫困状况具有重要意义。
