Lee Bo Hyeong Jane, Pearce Lisa D, Schorpp Kristen M
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, PhD Candidate.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Associate Professor.
J Sci Study Relig. 2017 Sep;56(3):678-689. doi: 10.1111/jssr.12367. Epub 2018 Mar 14.
Prior research suggests the significance of religion for development and wellbeing in adolescence and beyond. Further, new developments and applications of statistical methods have led to ways of better accounting for the multidimensional nature of religiosity (e.g. latent class analysis), as well as the dynamic aspects of religiosity (e.g. latent growth curve models). Yet, rarely if ever are both features of religiosity incorporated and examined together. Therefore, we propose and conduct a latent class analysis using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health) to identify seven distinct pathways of religiosity that involve independently changing levels of religious affiliation, religious service attendance, personal importance of religion, and prayer from adolescence to adulthood. We also show how individuals' religious pathways are related to gender, race, parents' education, their own education, and family formation experiences in the transition to adulthood. Our findings inform the study of how multiple dimensions of religiosity take shape across adolescence and the transition to adulthood, and suggest a new way for measuring the dynamics of religiosity in studies of the impact of religion across the life course.
先前的研究表明宗教对青少年及之后的发展和幸福具有重要意义。此外，统计方法的新发展和应用带来了更好地解释宗教信仰多维性质（如潜在类别分析）以及宗教信仰动态方面（如潜在增长曲线模型）的方法。然而，宗教信仰的这两个特征很少（如果有的话）被同时纳入并一起研究。因此，我们提出并使用来自青少年到成人健康纵向研究（Add Health）的数据进行潜在类别分析，以确定宗教信仰的七条不同路径，这些路径涉及从青少年到成年期间宗教归属、宗教仪式参与、宗教对个人的重要性以及祈祷程度的独立变化。我们还展示了个体的宗教路径在向成年过渡过程中如何与性别、种族、父母教育程度、自身教育程度以及家庭形成经历相关。我们的研究结果为宗教信仰的多个维度在整个青少年时期及向成年过渡过程中如何形成的研究提供了信息，并为在宗教对人生历程影响的研究中测量宗教信仰动态提供了一种新方法。
