Table 1.
Frequency of Attendance at Religious Services, Frequency of Attendance at Religious Activities, and Importance of Beliefs by Time, Gender, and Religious Affiliation
| Dimension | Time 1 M(SD) |
Time 2 M(SD) |
Time 3 M(SD) |
F (time) | F (gender) | F (affiliation) |
F (time × gender) |
F (time× affiliation) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frequency of Religious Service | ||||||||
| Attendance | 19.0 (18.4) | 13.8 (16.3) | 11.3 (15.5) | 48.8*** | 1.3 | 12.0*** | 0.2 | 3.8*** |
| Male | 19.4 (18.1) | 13.2 (16.0) | 11.0 (15.6) | |||||
| Female | 18.6 (18.6) | 14.3 (16.5) | 11.6 (15.4) | |||||
| Evangelical Protestant | 32.0 (15.9) | 22.8 (16.0) | 20.5 (19.1) | |||||
| Mainline Protestant | 20.0 (17.6) | 14.2 (14.4) | 8.8 (11.5) | |||||
| Black Protestant | 24.6 (17.7) | 15.7 (16.3) | 11.8 (13.4) | |||||
| Protestant (NOS) | 6.4 (8.0) | 7.6 (8.8) | 5.1 (6.0) | |||||
| Catholic | 20.5 (19.1) | 16.1 (18.1) | 13.9 (17.7) | |||||
| Agnostic/Atheist | 5.5 (10.7) | 2.5 (5.5) | 3.2 (9.1) | |||||
| Frequency of Religious Activity Attendance | ||||||||
| 6.3 (12.0) | 4.4 (10.6) | 3.3 (9.5) | 10.6*** | 0.1 | 19.1*** | 5.5** | 1.2 | |
| Male | 7.7 (13.7) | 4.1 (10.2) | 3.9 (10.9) | |||||
| Female | 5.1 (10.1) | 4.6 (11.0) | 2.9 (8.1) | |||||
| Evangelical Protestant | 18.1 (19.3) | 15.8 (18.7) | 17.9 (21.6) | |||||
| Mainline Protestant | 8.8 (10.8) | 7.6 (13.9) | 3.0 (7.1) | |||||
| Black Protestant | 10.2 (13.5) | 7.0 (10.5) | 5.7 (11.5) | |||||
| Protestant (NOS) | 5.2 (11.3) | 2.3 (6.3) | 2.0 (3.6) | |||||
| Catholic | 3.8 (9.8) | 2.1 (8.2) | 1.1 (4.8) | |||||
| Agnostic/Atheist | 1.0 (3.9) | 0.2 (1.4) | 0.1 (0.5) | |||||
| Importance of Beliefs | 15.3 (6.3) | 15.1 (6.4) | 14.9 (6.9) | 2.0 | 6.4** | 45.2*** | 0.6 | 0.7 |
| Male | 14.1 (6.6) | 14.1 (6.6) | 13.8 (6.6) | |||||
| Female | 16.2 (5.9) | 15.8 (6.2) | 15.8 (6.1) | |||||
| Evangelical Protestant | 19.6 (4.6) | 18.3 (5.1) | 18.4 (5.6) | |||||
| Mainline Protestant | 16.0 (5.2) | 16.1 (5.3) | 15.8 (5.5) | |||||
| Black Protestant | 20.0 (3.7) | 19.6 (4.2) | 19.1 (4.3) | |||||
| Protestant (NOS) | 15.3 (5.5) | 16.0 (6.5) | 15.5 (6.0) | |||||
| Catholic | 15.3 (5.0) | 14.9 (5.1) | 15.0 (5.1) | |||||
| Agnostic/Atheist | 6.2 (5.9) | 5.9 (5.1) | 6.0 (5.1) |
*
p < .05;
**
p <. 01,
***
p <. 001.
Note. Interactions of gender×affiliation were never significant and are therefore not reported.
Due to missing data and omission affiliations with small cell sizes, sample size ranged from n = 303 to 338.