Attachment to parents and to God: a panel-data approach

Research at the nexus of attachment theory and religion has generally been constrained both by data limitations and by a view of attachment style as fixed early in life. I use three waves of data to test key hypotheses from this literature in new ways. Closeness to mother and closeness to father ser...

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Published in:Journal of contemporary religion
Main Author: Homan, Casey P. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Carfax Publ. [2019]
In: Journal of contemporary religion
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B God / Bindungsverhalten / Parents / Psychometrics
RelBib Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
AE Psychology of religion
CB Christian life; spirituality
Further subjects:B adolescents / youth
B Attachment Theory
B panel data
B Family
B Social Psychology
Online Access: Volltext (Resolving-System)
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Summary:Research at the nexus of attachment theory and religion has generally been constrained both by data limitations and by a view of attachment style as fixed early in life. I use three waves of data to test key hypotheses from this literature in new ways. Closeness to mother and closeness to father serve as proxies for attachment to parents and closeness to God serves as a proxy for attachment to God. The correspondence hypothesis predicts that people who feel closer to their parents feel closer to God, the compensation hypothesis predicts that people lacking a parent feel closer to God, and the socialized correspondence hypothesis predicts that people with nonreligious parents will feel less close to God if they feel closer to their parents. I find strong evidence in favor of the correspondence hypothesis, but I find no evidence in favor of the compensation hypothesis or the socialized correspondence hypothesis.
ISSN:1469-9419
Contains:Enthalten in: Journal of contemporary religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1080/13537903.2019.1658941