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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Publié dans:Journal of contemporary religion
Auteur principal: Homan, Casey P. (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Carfax Publ. [2019]
Dans: Journal of contemporary religion
Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés:B Dieu / Bindungsverhalten / Parents / Psychométrie
RelBib Classification:AD Sociologie des religions
AE Psychologie de la religion
CB Spiritualité chrétienne
Sujets non-standardisés:B adolescents / youth
B Attachment Theory
B panel data
B Family
B Social Psychology
Accès en ligne: Volltext (Resolving-System)
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Résumé: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
Contient:Enthalten in: Journal of contemporary religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1080/13537903.2019.1658941