Table 2.
Coefficients from Ordered Logit Regression Models Predicting Religious and Spiritual Outcomes among Young Adults, by Interview Date, Social Location, Personal Resources, Religiosity, and Controls
| Religious salience (N = 13,257) | Spiritual salience (N = 13,256) | Frequency of prayer (N = 13,286) | Guided decision-making (N = 13,188) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| β | SE | β | SE | β | SE | β | SE | |
| September 12–October 11 | .17* | .08 | .08 | .07 | .22** | .07 | .01 | .07 |
| October 12–November 11 | .06 | .08 | .01 | .08 | .05 | .08 | −.08 | .08 |
| November 12–December 11 | .05 | .09 | .05 | .09 | .13 | .08 | .00 | .08 |
| December 12–May 2002 | −.09 | .07 | −.09 | .07 | −.03 | .07 | −.03 | .07 |
| Female | .25*** | .04 | .22*** | .31 | .54*** | .04 | .16** | .04 |
| Lives in Northeast | −.62*** | .08 | −.56*** | .08 | −.67*** | .08 | −.51*** | .08 |
| Lives in Midwest | −.38*** | .09 | −.29** | .09 | −.33*** | .08 | −.27*** | .07 |
| Lives in West | −.28** | .10 | −.02 | .10 | −.19* | .10 | −.14 | .09 |
| Enrolled in or graduated from two-year college | .04 | .07 | .19* | .08 | .21** | .07 | .06 | .07 |
| Enrolled in or graduated from four-year college | .21** | .06 | .49*** | .05 | .34*** | .06 | .32*** | .06 |
| Mainline Protestant | −.19* | .08 | −.15+ | .09 | −.11 | .08 | −.09 | .08 |
| Black Protestant | −.52*** | .14 | −.47* | .20 | −.57*** | .16 | −.36+ | .19 |
| Catholic | −.33*** | .08 | −.39*** | .09 | −.28** | .08 | −.27** | .09 |
| Other religion | −.12 | .10 | −.08 | .10 | −.25* | .10 | .01 | .10 |
| No religion | .14 | .19 | .26 | .25 | .02 | .20 | .11 | .17 |
| Married | .38*** | .07 | .34*** | .08 | .41*** | .07 | .42*** | .07 |
| Cohabiting | −.28*** | .07 | −.19** | .07 | −.21** | .07 | −.15* | .07 |
| Parents care about very much | .05 | .06 | .09 | .07 | .14* | .06 | −.02 | .07 |
| No significant friend contact over past week | −.24* | .09 | −.27** | .10 | −.35** | .10 | −.08 | .09 |
| Top 10% CES-D score | .11 | .08 | .25** | .09 | .14 | .09 | .16* | .08 |
| Attended religious services less than once a month | .19+ | .10 | .17+ | .04 | .19* | .08 | .11 | .08 |
| Attended religious services one to three times a month | .44*** | .08 | .44*** | .09 | .37*** | .07 | .34*** | .08 |
| Attended religious services once a week or more | .71*** | .08 | .68*** | .08 | .58*** | .08 | .71*** | .08 |
| Religion fairly unimportant | .48* | .19 | .46* | .23 | .31 | .19 | .21 | .16 |
| Religion fairly important | 1.10*** | .18 | .89*** | .24 | .81*** | .18 | .66*** | .14 |
| Religion very important | 2.15*** | .19 | 1.86*** | .23 | 1.50*** | .18 | 1.42*** | .16 |
| Black | .99*** | .15 | .89*** | .22 | 1.10*** | .16 | .85*** | .19 |
| Hispanic | .32*** | .09 | .28*** | .07 | .21* | .10 | .13+ | .08 |
| Asian | .02 | .14 | −.19 | .12 | −.20 | .15 | .06 | .11 |
| Lives with family | −.02 | .05 | −.05 | .05 | .00 | .05 | .03 | .05 |
| Age (in months) | .00 | .00 | .00 | .00 | .00 | .00 | .00*** | .00 |
| Intact family | .12* | .06 | −.03 | .05 | −.10+ | .05 | .03 | .05 |
| −2 log-likelihood | 28,712.10 | 28,867.23 | 48,174.77 | 35,308.24 | ||||
+
p < .10
*
p < .05
**
p < .01
***
p < .001
Notes: Reference categories are pre-September 11, lives in the South, did not go to or did not finish college, evangelical Protestant, single, never attended religious services, religion not important at all, and White.