Age and Religiosity: Evidence from a Three-Wave Panel Analysis.

Using pooled time series with random and fixed effects regression models, we examine the effect of age, period, and family life course events on a measure of religious influence on daily life in a panel of 1,339 adults interviewed three times between 1980 and 1992. The results show a significant, no...

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Published in:Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion (Wiley-Blackwell) Vol. 38; no. 3; pp. 423 - 436
Main Authors: Argue, Amy, Johnson, David R., White, Lynn K.
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell Sep99
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          Argue, Amy
          Johnson, David R.
          White, Lynn K.
        affil: Professor of Sociology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 88588-0324.
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        Social science methodology
        Christians
        Religious groups
        Religious institutions
        Regression analysis
        Evidence
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      ab: Using pooled time series with random and fixed effects regression models, we examine the effect of age, period, and family life course events on a measure of religious influence on daily life in a panel of 1,339 adults interviewed three times between 1980 and 1992. The results show a significant, non-linear increase in religiosity with age, with the greatest increase occurring between ages 18 and 30. We also found a significant decline in religiosity between 1980 and 1988, but no evidence of a period effect between 1988 and 1992. Comparison of fixed and random effects solutions found little evidence that a cohort effect accounted for the age findings. The age effect was significantly stronger for Catholics than Protestants and the lower religiosity of males was also significantly stronger for Catholics. Adding children in the range from age two to ten significantly increased religiosity, hut family life course events accounted for little if any of the age effect.
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