Religion, which is more of an informal system than anything else, permeates every aspect our lives. As a result this context, article uses China as case study to investigate the effect religious community participation on income (a proxy for shaking off poverty). Using 2018 Chinese General Social Survey and ordinary least squares approach conduct empirical study, results indicate that in commun...

Religion can have an important influence in moral decision-making, and religious reminders may deter people from unethical behavior. Previous research indicated that religious contexts may increase prosocial behavior and reduce cheating. However, the perceptual-behavioral link between religious contexts and decision-making lacks thorough scientific understanding. This study adds to the current ...

Previous research has studied the correlations between income, education, and sustainable culture entertainment consumption. The correlation religion as an informal institution consumption is often neglected. Based on this background, paper attempts to explore religious participation (as a proxy for religion) three kinds of Using data from Chinese General Social Survey in 2017 perform empirical...

BACKGROUND Religious participation or belief may predict better mental health but most research is American and measures of spirituality are often conflated with well-being. AIMS To examine associations between a spiritual or religious understanding of life and psychiatric symptoms and diagnoses. METHOD We analysed data collected from interviews with 7403 people who participated in the thir...

Structural equation modeling was used to test a theoretically based model of environmental, family, and child factors as determinants of the leisure and recreation participation of children with physical disabilities. Participants were 427 families and children (229 boys and 198 girls) with physical functional limitations, in 3 age groups (6–8, 9–11, and 12–14 years). Data were collected via ho...

This article empirically examines the labour market participation of Italian women, with special emphasis on the role of intergenerational family links. Elderly relatives may play an important role in explaining the work patterns of women. First, they discourage the work participation of women by requiring unpaid help; secondly, they also provide household services such as child care, favouring...

Too few studies have assessed the relationship between youth risk behaviors and religiosity using measures which captured the varied extent to which youth are engaged in religion. This study applied three measures of religiosity and risk behaviors. In addition, this study ascertained information about youths' participation in religious activities from a parent or caretaker. Based on a national ...

I provide an empirical assessment of the religious commitments of gays, lesbians, and bisexuals in the United States. I compare the religiosity of gay men and lesbians and bisexuals to each other and to male and female heterosexuals, while controlling for a host of sociodemographic factors that may contribute to differences across the gender/sexuality groups. To accomplish this, I examine data ...

Managing one’s identity across time and through major life changes is a key process in the life course. Yet, prominent theories of identity have not been adequately tested across age groups and through life transitions. Using longitudinal data from the National Study of Youth and Religion (N = 3,290), the basic hypotheses of identity theory are confirmed in explaining adolescents’ religious ide...

Previous literature on religion and sexual behavior has focused on narrow definitions of religiosity, including religious affiliation, religious participation, or forms of religiousness (e.g., intrinsic religiosity). Trends toward more permissive premarital sexual activity in the North American Christian-Judeo religion support the secularization hypothesis of religion, which posits an increasin...