Major-Smith Daniel, Morgan Jimmy, Halstead Isaac, Tohidinik Hamid Reza, Goulding Neil, Iles-Caven Yasmin, Golding Jean, Northstone Kate
Centre for Academic Child Health, Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 2BN, UK.
MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.
Wellcome Open Res. 2024 Jun 4;7:290. doi: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.18517.2. eCollection 2022.
We explored associations between possible demographic and socioeconomic causes of religious/spiritual beliefs and behaviours (RSBB) in the offspring generation of the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC).
We examined approximately 4,450 offspring aged 28 years with RSBB data from a prospective birth cohort study (ALSPAC) in Southwest England. Three RSBB outcome measures were assessed: religious belief (belief in God/a divine power; yes/not sure/no), religious affiliation (Christian/none/other) and religious attendance (frequency of attendance at a place of worship). We explored age- and sex-adjusted associations between 35 demographic and socioeconomic exposures and each of the three RSBB outcomes using multinomial regression. Exposure-sex interactions were also examined.
Some sociodemographic factors were associated with RSBB in this cohort; for instance, being female and from an ethnicity other than White were associated with increased religiosity across all domains. For many other exposures, however, associations were frequently null or inconsistent, often depending on the specific exposure and outcome combination. As an example, higher educational attainment was associated with higher rates of religious attendance, but not with religious belief or affiliation; in contrast, higher income was associated with lower levels of religiosity. No consistent interactions between sex and the exposures on RSBB were found. Effect sizes were also rather weak, with most pseudo- values below 0.5% and a maximum of 1.2%.
The results highlight that several demographic and socioeconomic factors are associated with RSBB in this cohort. However, the number of these associations, and their magnitude, is smaller than comparable results from the parental generation of these offspring, suggesting that patterns of sociodemographic factors associated with RSBB differ between these generations. In addition to describing these associations, this paper will help inform future studies using these data, particularly regarding the choice of potential sociodemographic confounders.
我们在埃文亲子纵向研究（ALSPAC）的子代中探究了宗教/精神信仰与行为（RSBB）可能的人口统计学和社会经济成因之间的关联。
我们对来自英格兰西南部一项前瞻性出生队列研究（ALSPAC）的约4450名28岁有RSBB数据的子代进行了研究。评估了三项RSBB结果指标：宗教信仰（相信上帝/神圣力量；是/不确定/否）、宗教归属（基督教/无/其他）和宗教礼拜出席情况（参加宗教场所礼拜的频率）。我们使用多项回归探究了35个人口统计学和社会经济暴露因素与三项RSBB结果指标各自之间经年龄和性别调整后的关联。还检验了暴露-性别交互作用。
在该队列中，一些社会人口学因素与RSBB相关；例如，女性以及非白人种族与所有领域宗教信仰的增加相关。然而，对于许多其他暴露因素，关联通常为空或不一致，这往往取决于具体的暴露因素和结果组合。例如，受教育程度较高与宗教礼拜出席率较高相关，但与宗教信仰或归属无关；相反，较高收入与较低宗教信仰水平相关。未发现性别与RSBB暴露因素之间存在一致的交互作用。效应大小也相当微弱，大多数伪值低于0.5%，最高为1.2%。
结果表明，在该队列中，若干人口统计学和社会经济因素与RSBB相关。然而，这些关联的数量及其强度小于这些子代的亲代的可比结果，这表明与RSBB相关的社会人口学因素模式在这两代人之间有所不同。除了描述这些关联外，本文将有助于为未来使用这些数据的研究提供信息，特别是关于潜在社会人口学混杂因素的选择。
