Linking Religious Upbringing to Young Adult Moral Formation
Recent scholarship has conceptualized morality in terms of multidimensional, intuitive traits that influence what people regard as right or wrong. Ample literature shows that religious factors are closely related to moral traits. However, little research has explored links between religious upbringi...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
2023
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Journal for the scientific study of religion
Year: 2023, Volume: 62, Issue: 3, Pages: 481-499 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Moral development
/ Religious education
/ Religion
/ Socialization
/ Religious practice
/ Teenagers (12-17 Jahre)
/ Adult (20-30 Jahre)
/ History 2002-2013
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RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AE Psychology of religion AG Religious life; material religion AH Religious education NCB Personal ethics TK Recent history |
Further subjects: | B
Life Course
B Adolescence B Morality B Family B Young adulthood |
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Summary: | Recent scholarship has conceptualized morality in terms of multidimensional, intuitive traits that influence what people regard as right or wrong. Ample literature shows that religious factors are closely related to moral traits. However, little research has explored links between religious upbringing and adult moral outcomes. This study uses longitudinal data from the National Study of Youth and Religion to examine how diverse forms of religious socialization in adolescence are related to two well-validated social-scientific conceptions of morality in young adulthood: Haidt's moral foundations and Schwartz’ values typology. Using regression analyses and Lindeman, Merenda, and Gold (LMG) decomposition methods, I show that different aspects of religious upbringing are linked to the development of both moral foundations and values. Religious factors play a stronger role than either sociodemographics or parent political ideology in predicting young adult moral characteristics. Results highlight the centrality of religious upbringing to the state and trajectory of the population-level moral structure. |
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ISSN: | 1468-5906 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal for the scientific study of religion
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/jssr.12835 |