Adams Jimi, Schaefer David R, Ettekal Andrea Vest
Department of Health & Behavioral Sciences, University of Colorado Denver.
Department of Sociology, University of California Irvine.
J Sci Study Relig. 2020 Mar;59(1):39-61. doi: 10.1111/jssr.12638. Epub 2020 Jan 23.
This research addresses the intersection of two key domains of adolescents' lives: religion and peer networks. Religion scholars argue that religion is multi-faceted and better understood by focusing on combinations of indicators (i.e. mosaics), versus a variable-centered approach. We adopt this framework and investigate the interplay between religion and peer networks, both in how religious mosaics are shaped by friends and how religious profiles affect friend selection dynamics. With data from two schools in the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, we estimate religious mosaics using latent class analysis (LCA) to identify profiles consisting of combinations of commonly available survey-based measures of religious attitudes, behaviors, and identities. Finding evidence of theoretically-expected profiles, we then use stochastic actor based models (SABMs) to investigate network dynamics for these LCA-based religious profiles. We demonstrate how the profile data can be integrated within the SABM framework to evaluate processes of friend selection and influence. Results show evidence of adolescents influencing one another's religious mosaics, but not selecting friends on that basis.
宗教与同伴网络。宗教研究学者认为，宗教具有多面性，通过关注指标组合（即镶嵌模式）比以变量为中心的方法能更好地理解宗教。我们采用这一框架，研究宗教与同伴网络之间的相互作用，包括宗教镶嵌模式如何由朋友塑造，以及宗教特征如何影响朋友选择动态。利用来自青少年健康全国纵向研究中两所学校的数据，我们使用潜在类别分析（LCA）来估计宗教镶嵌模式，以识别由基于常见调查的宗教态度、行为和身份测量组合而成的特征。在找到理论预期特征的证据后，我们使用基于随机行为者的模型（SABMs）来研究这些基于LCA的宗教特征的网络动态。我们展示了如何将特征数据整合到SABM框架中，以评估朋友选择和影响过程。结果表明，青少年之间存在相互影响对方宗教镶嵌模式的证据，但并非基于此选择朋友。
