Table 3.
Proportions and conditional probabilities of responses for five latent classes
| Abiders | Adapters | Assenters | Avoiders | Atheists | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Proportion of sample in class | .25 | .19 | .31 | .22 | .03 |
| Range and mean of predicted probability of being in this class (for those identified as most likely to be in this class) |
.38 to 1 (.87) |
.37 to 1 (.76) |
.36 to 1 (.78) |
.30 to 1 (.89) |
.76 to 1 (1.00) |
| Cognitive Religiosity | |||||
| View of God | |||||
| Does not believe in God | .00 | .00 | .00 | .00 | 1.00 |
| God not personally involved in lives | .06 | .32 | .20 | .69 | .00 |
| God personally involved in lives | .94 | .68 | .80 | .31 | .00 |
| Total | 100.0% | 100.0% | 100.0% | 100.0% | 100.0% |
| Afterlife | |||||
| Not at all | .11 | .17 | .10 | .15 | .40 |
| Maybe | .11 | .34 | .42 | .66 | .44 |
| Definitely | .78 | .50 | .49 | .19 | .16 |
| Only one religion | |||||
| No | .51 | .92 | .83 | .97 | .98 |
| Yes | .49 | .08 | .17 | .03 | .02 |
| Doubts | |||||
| Many or some doubts | .06 | .32 | .20 | .28 | .16 |
| A few doubts | .26 | .25 | .40 | .29 | .08 |
| No doubts | .68 | .43 | .40 | .43 | .76 |
| Affective Religiosity | |||||
| Importance of faith | |||||
| Not at all or not very important | .00 | .06 | .04 | .58 | .84 |
| Somewhat important | .04 | .29 | .55 | .38 | .08 |
| Very Important | .41 | .43 | .38 | .04 | .07 |
| Extremely important | .55 | .22 | .04 | .01 | .01 |
| Closeness to God | |||||
| Does not believe in God (not asked) | .00 | .00 | .00 | .00 | 1.00 |
| Extremely to somewhat distant | .03 | .14 | .15 | .74 | .00 |
| Somewhat close | .15 | .30 | .65 | .24 | .00 |
| Very or extremely close | .82 | .56 | .20 | .02 | .00 |
| Meaning of life | |||||
| Rarely or never | .21 | .08 | .32 | .41 | .40 |
| Sometimes | .30 | .22 | .39 | .33 | .31 |
| Fairly often | .21 | .14 | .21 | .15 | .17 |
| Very often | .27 | .57 | .08 | .11 | .13 |
| Spiritual but not religious | |||||
| Very true | .06 | .21 | .04 | .10 | .09 |
| Somewhat true | .18 | .55 | .61 | .56 | .30 |
| Not at all true | .75 | .24 | .35 | .34 | .61 |
| Behavioral Religiosity | |||||
| Religious service attendance | |||||
| Never | .00 | .20 | .07 | .45 | .78 |
| Few times to many times a year | .10 | .30 | .25 | .32 | .08 |
| One to three times a month | .12 | .24 | .27 | .14 | .13 |
| Once a week or more | .78 | .26 | .40 | .08 | .01 |
| Prayer | |||||
| Never | .01 | .06 | .04 | .42 | .85 |
| Less than once a month to 1–2/month | .04 | .14 | .24 | .41 | .08 |
| About once a week to a few times a week | .18 | .29 | .45 | .14 | .06 |
| About once a day to many times a day | .77 | .51 | .27 | .03 | .01 |
| Volunteering | |||||
| Never | .26 | .38 | .33 | .42 | .40 |
| A few times | .34 | .36 | .36 | .33 | .28 |
| Occasionally or regularly | .41 | .27 | .31 | .25 | .33 |
| Helped | |||||
| None | .22 | .18 | .24 | .37 | .35 |
| A little | .32 | .22 | .34 | .29 | .25 |
| Some | .31 | .36 | .37 | .29 | .32 |
| A lot | .14 | .24 | .05 | .06 | .09 |
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