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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Feb 23.
Published in final edited form as: Health Educ Behav. 2010 Dec 17;38(1):25–38. doi: 10.1177/1090198110370281

Table 4.

Congregational Support, Formal Church Programs, and Healthy Lifestyles (N = 426)

Independent Variables Model l Model 2 Model 3
Age –.011a –.0l4 –.026
(–.0l4)b (–.0l9) (–.036)
Sex –.0l2 –.0ll –.008
(–.l76) (–.l60) (–.ll4)
Education .08l .09l .087
(.l65) (.l85) (.l77)
Race .088 .089 .090
(l.l87) (l.208) (l.22l)
Church attendance .09l .087 .083
(.477) (.459) (.439)
Private prayer –.007 .00l –.00l
(–.043) (.008) (–.008)
Bible study groups –.0l4 –.006 .00l
(–.028) (–.0l2) (.00l)
Prayer groups .04l .029 .033
(.094) (.066) (.075)
Congregational support .06l .033 –.032
(.l29) (.070) (–.068)
Formal church programs –.055 –.059 –.025
(–.l62 (–.l73) (–.075)
Belonging .047 .058 .0l6
(.l52) (.l85) (.052)
Congregational Support × Belonging
(.l70)* (.l56)*
Congregational Support × Race
(.060) (.l4l)
Belonging × Race
(.347) (.043)
Formal Programs × Belonging
(–.097) (–.l85)
Formal Programs × Race
(–.l37) (–.l4l)
Congregational Support × Belonging × Race
(–.399)**
Formal Programs × Belonging × Race
(–.008)
Multiple R2 .036 .05l .07l
a

Standardized regression coefficient.

b

Metric (unstandardized) regression coefficient.

*

p < .05.

**

p < .01.