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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jun 20.
Published in final edited form as: Sociol Spectr. 2008;28(5):477–509. doi: 10.1080/02732170802206047

Table 5.

Marginal Effects of Interview Date on Religious and Spiritual Outcomes, Conditioned on Religiosity

Religious salience Spiritual salience Frequency of prayer Guided decision-making
β SE β SE β SE β SE
Never attended religious services as an adolescent
September 12–October 11 .36* .17 .01 .16 .19 .16 −.09 .17
October 12–November 11 .16 .17 .05 .18 −.02 .17 −.09 .16
November 12–December 11 .30+ .16 .24 .19 .09 .15 .07 .17
December 12–May 2002 .14 .15 .13 .14 .07 .12 .03 .13
Attended religious services less than once a month as an adolescent
September 12–October 11 .11 .18 .01 .19 .29 .17 .13 .19
October 12–November 11 .36+ .20 .22 .19 .14 .19 .05 .18
November 12–December 11 .23 .17 .30 .18 .32+ .17 .10 .18
December 12–May 2002 .20 .14 −.02 .14 .06 .14 .16 .15
Attended religious services one to three times a month as an adolescent
September 12–October 11 .19 .19 .19 .18 −.02 .17 −.02 .18
October 12–November 11 .06 .18 −.01 .16 −.12 .14 −.09 .15
November 12–December 11 −.08 .18 −.08 .19 .00 .18 −.02 .17
December 12–May 2002 −.09 .14 −.15 .15 −.14 .14 −.20 .12
Attended religious services weekly or more as an adolescent
September 12–October 11 .08 .12 .09 .11 .32** .10 .04 .11
October 12–November 11 −.13 .12 −.10 .11 .12 .11 −.12 .11
November 12–December 11 −.11 .14 −.11 .12 .11 .12 −.07 .12
December 12–May 2002 .37** .12 .23* .10 −.06 .10 −.07 .10
Religion not important at all as an adolescent
September 12–October 11 .35 .24 .36+ .21 .23 .22 .13 .24
October 12–November 11 .37 .24 .42+ .25 .24 .22 .14 .22
November 12–December 11 .53* .26 .63** .23 .23 .21 .24 .22
December 12–May 2002 .43* .20 .43* .20 .31+ .18 .17 .18
Religion fairly unimportant as an adolescent
September 12–October 11 .31 .28 −.37 .32 .54+ .30 .12 .29
October 12–November 11 −.15 .32 −.43 .28 −.25 .35 −.15 .29
November 12–December 11 .06 .26 .44 .37 .25 .24 .41 .37
December 12–May 2002 .02 .21 −.27 .23 −.05 .25 .24 .25
Religion fairly important as an adolescent
September 12–October 11 .07 .11 −.02 .13 .14 .11 −.00 .11
October 12–November 11 .22+ .13 .15 .13 .17 .12 .01 .13
November 12–December 11 .13 .11 .03 .12 .25* .11 .11 .13
December 12–May 2002 −.06 .10 −.04 .10 −.08 .09 .00 .09
Religion very important as an adolescent
September 12–October 11 .17 .12 .12 .12 .23* .11 −.04 .12
October 12–November 11 −.17 .12 .20+ .11 −.09 .10 .24+ .13
November 12–December 11 −.20 .14 −.20 .12 −.05 .13 .27* .12
December 12–May 2002 .32** .11 .30** .10 −.08 .09 .18+ .10
+

p < .10

*

p < .05

**

p < .01

***

p < .001

Notes: Marginal effects generated from main effects and interaction effects of models containing the independent variables in Table 2 and interactions between the interview date and the variable in question. Ns are identical to Table 2.