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Showing 1 to 20 of 58 for “"Church attendance"”.
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Personality and Achievement Factors as Influences on Church Attendance of College Students
… even of the same religious preference, attend church functions with varying degrees o£ frequency. What factors influence the rate of attendance among students? This study investigated the relationship between reported church attendance and personality and achievement variables in a group of …
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An Inquiry into some Relationships Between Church Attendance and School Participation Beyond Regular Classroom Activity
… exist between students' frequency of attendance at church and grades, involvement in school sponsored activities, and certain social characteristics in their school lives. Procedure. The study was conducted in the ninth grade social science classes at a junior high school in Iowa. It …
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The Relationship Between Parental Influence and Christian Spiritual Practices Among Adventist youth in Puerto Rico
… such as prayer, Bible reading, meditation, and church attendance.</p> <p>Method. This study used data from the Avance PR study conducted during the months of March and October 1995. The population for this study was high-school students enrolled in Seventh-day Adventist academies and youth who …
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Religion and Political Behavior: Studies of Political Tolerance, Voting, and Public Opinion
… literalism decreases political tolerance, while church attendance often increases tolerance. Additional analysis finds that church attendance is strongly associated with voter turnout for the Republican candidates. Finally, work on public opinion finds that evangelical religious belonging is …
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A Study of the Relationship Between Police Stress and Moral Reasoning, Coping Mechanisms, and Selected Demographic Variables
… education, religious affiliation, frequency of church attendance, and community environment in which the officer serves.</p> <p><em>Results</em>. The present study found that 88% of police subjects considered police stress (administrative/organizational pressure and physical/psychological …
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Determinants of Physical Activity Behavior and Self-efficacy for Exercise among African American Women
… (i.e., level of education, monthly income, church attendance, residency [i.e., rural or urban], age, parental responsibility [i.e., caring for children under age 16], number of children, occupation and marital status), and physical activity behavior, to examine differences in the level of …
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Participatory resources and African American voter turnout: A comparative analysis of the 1992 and 1996 presidential elections
… suggest that socioreligious variables, such as church attendance, are powerful explanatory variables for encouraging voter participation by African Americans.
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The Relationship Between Religious Orientations and Levels of Moral Judgment.
… religion has been defined as the frequency of church attendance and morality has been defined in terms of altruism.
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Remembering The Church In The Wildwood: The Archival Processing And Digitization Of The Martinsville Baptist Church Collection
<p>Martinsville Baptist Church was founded in 1912 in a rural farming community on State Highway 7 in eastern Nacogdoches County. The church was founded during a revival being held in the community of Martinsville and has been in continuous operation ever since. The church grew throughout its …
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Discrimination and Psychological Distress Among Latinos: The Role of Family Conflict, Family Cohesion and Religion
… discrimination and psychological distress. Church attendance more than once a week significantly decreased psychological distress among Latino/as. In regard to the second objective, the analysis showed that family cohesion does have a non-linear effect on psychological distress among …
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Adverse Childhood Experiences and Acute Coronary Syndrome in Adulthood
… gender and poverty moderation effects emerged. Church attendance decreased the risk of ACS in females in poverty, after controls and ACE exposure. Among females in poverty, negative social support and negative spouse support increased the risk of ACS incidence after controls and ACE exposure. …
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A Study of Parental Attitudes Regarding Secondary Boarding Schools of the Mid-America Union of Seventh-day Adventists
… areas of specific attitudes: financial costs, church attendance, socio-economic levels, length of church membership, dormitory concept, and the school's fulfillment ofits mission.</p> <p>A chi-square analysis was run on the 210 surveys, applying .10 as the level for significance.</p> <p>Results …
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The Influence of Family Solidarity on Religious Participation and Religiosity Among College Students
… both religious participation (measured by church attendance) and religiosity. However, it had a much greater effect in terms of predicting religiosity.
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A Study of Religious Attitudes and Problems as Perceived by Current and Former Seventh-day Adventist Students at Seventh-day Adventist Mission Secondary Schools in Hong Kong
… spite of the combined efforts of both the local churches and the schools, the church attendance of Seventh-day Adventist adolescents has been low. This present study was to identify the religious attitudes of current Adventist students and Adventist alumni of all Adventist mission secondary …
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Selected Dimensions and Orientations of Religiosity Related to Marital Satifaction As Perceived by Married Seventh-day Adventists in the Midwest
… congruence with spouse on religiosity and church attendance. The religiosity variables that significantly correlated at p $\le$.01 were intrinsic orientation and private ritualistic practices. Those that significantly correlated at p $\le$.05 were religious experience, public ritualistic …
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A Study of the Religious Attitudes and Behaviors of Seventh-day Adventist Adolescents in North America Related to their Family, Educational, and Church Backgrounds
… Why are Seventh-day Adventist youth leaving the church in North America? This study, the first report of a 10-year longitudinal research project, sought to identify attitudes and behaviors of Adventist adolescents and examine possible correlations with the religious backgrounds and influences of …
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Maybe less is more : congregation size and social embeddedness in the age of the megachurch.
… I analyze the relationship between weekly church attendance and congregational belonging and friendship, and how these relationships vary across religious traditions. Results indicate a negative relationship between congregation size and social embeddedness for all traditions except Black …
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The Influence of Religiosity and Fundamentalism on White Protestants' Attitudes Toward Women's Issues
… and regressions between measures of religiosity (church attendance and strength of affiliation) and attitudes toward women's issues, as well as between the measures of fundamentalism (Biblical interpretation, NORC determined level of fundamentalism, and self-report being fundamentalist) and …
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Attitudes of college students toward the world food crisis
… freshman/seniors, and frequent/infrequent church attendance. In the 1990 study, these three groups, plus female/male, were examined. Differences in attitudes between the 1975 and the 1990 study are reported in all categories.
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