Table 3.

Categorization of Longitudinal Trajectories of Religious Predictor Variables Stratified by Responses Recorded at Baseline Interview

Predictor Variable	Samea	Lessb	Morec	Variabled
Religious attendance (N = 184)
Once a month or more	21	18	0	7
Less frequently	127	0	4	7
Religious identity (N = 184)
Deeply religious	35	6	0	10
Less religious	109	0	17	7
Religious comfort (N = 183)
A great deal	86	11	0	8
Little or none	54	0	13	11
Grown closer to god (N = 184)
Yes	79	17	0	16
No	44	0	14	14
Grown spiritually (N = 184)
Yes	71	17	0	16
No	51	0	19	10

^aThis category records study participants whose binary variable value did not change for all of their longitudinal observations.

^bThis category records study participants whose binary variable value changed from a more religious to a less religious value and did not change again.

^cThis category records study participants whose binary variable value changed from a less religious to a more religious value and did not change again.

^dThis category records study participants whose binary variable value changed at least twice during the course of their longitudinal observations.