Gender and Regional Differences in the Religiosity of Protestant Adolescents
Gender differences on religiosity by region and denomination are assessed by means of a three-way analysis of variance. The data were collected in 1975 from a national sample of adolescents, and the analysis is limited to Protestants grouped into churchlike, Baptist, and sectlike categories. Three m...
| Published in: | Review of religious research |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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1981
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Review of religious research
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| Summary: | Gender differences on religiosity by region and denomination are assessed by means of a three-way analysis of variance. The data were collected in 1975 from a national sample of adolescents, and the analysis is limited to Protestants grouped into churchlike, Baptist, and sectlike categories. Three measures of religiosity were employed: personal-experiential religiosity, religious practice, and fundamentalism. It was hypothesized that females would be more religious than males on the more personal dimension but not on the more public or cultural measures (religious practice and fundamentalism). This gender difference was expected for churchlike youth in the non-South and South and Baptist youth in the South. These expectations were fulfilled except that churchlike females in the South did not score significantly higher on the personal-experiential measure than did the males, and in the South Baptist females were more likely to engage in religious practice than Baptist males. These differences, as well as the interaction effect between sex and region in predicting fundamentalism, are discussed. The review of literature and the discussion relate gender differences in religiosity to regional and denominational variation in sex role definition, as well as to parent-child interaction and the socialization process. |
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| ISSN: | 2211-4866 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Review of religious research
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/3509676 |