Pearce Lisa D, Davis Shannon N
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Sociology, 155 Hamilton Hall - CB 3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210,
George Mason University, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, 4400 University Dr. MSN 3G5, Fairfax, VA 22030,
J Marriage Fam. 2016 Oct;78(5):1422-1438. doi: 10.1111/jomf.12364. Epub 2016 Aug 19.
This paper examines intermediary processes explaining how religious socialization and involvement early in life are related to the timing of first births for women in the United States. The theory of conjunctural action forms the basis for hypotheses for how religious schema and materials operate to influence birth timing. Using the NLSY79 data and event history methods, the study finds evidence for expected family size, work-family gender ideology, educational attainment and enrollment, cohabitation, and age at marriage as mediators of associations between early life religious exposure (affiliation and attendance) and the timing of nonmaritally and maritally conceived first births. These findings corroborate other research identifying the long reach of religious socialization and involvement in youth, elucidate some of the pathways for these connections, and motivate further work to understand linkages between religion and family behaviors in the United States.
本文探讨了一些中介过程，这些过程解释了美国女性早年的宗教社会化和参与度如何与首次生育的时间相关。结合行动理论为宗教模式和材料如何影响生育时间的假设奠定了基础。利用“全国青年纵向调查”（NLSY79）数据和事件史方法，该研究发现，预期家庭规模、工作与家庭的性别观念、教育程度与入学情况、同居以及结婚年龄是早年宗教接触（宗教归属和宗教活动参与情况）与非婚生育和婚内生育的首次生育时间之间关联的中介因素。这些发现证实了其他研究中关于宗教社会化和青少年参与的深远影响，阐明了其中一些关联途径，并促使人们进一步开展研究，以了解美国宗教与家庭行为之间的联系。
