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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jan 7.
Published in final edited form as: Rev Relig Res. 2013 Dec 10;56(4):513–538. doi: 10.1007/s13644-013-0144-z

Table 3.

Correlates of Organizational Religiosity

Predictors1,2 No Current Denomination Never Attending Religious Services Service Attendance Church Membership Congregation Activities
β SE β SE β SE β SE β SE
Age −0.03 0.01*** −0.04 0.01*** 0.01 0.00*** 0.01 0.01 0.01 0.00**
Gender
 Female −0.57 0.13*** −0.16 0.18 0.31 0.06*** 0.61 0.12*** 0.22 0.07**
Imputed Family Income −0.01 0.01 −0.02 0.02 0.01 0.00 0.02 0.01 0.01 0.00
Years of Education −0.09 0.04* −0.15 0.04*** 0.05 0.01*** 0.04 0.02 0.03 0.01*
Region
 Northeast 0.73 0.20*** 0.74 0.21*** −0.51 0.08*** −0.46 0.18* −0.14 0.07*
 North Central 0.69 0.18*** 0.63 0.24** −0.38 0.06*** −0.49 0.17** −0.05 0.08
 Rural South 0.12 0.35 0.12 0.42 −0.02 0.12 0.50 0.24* 0.05 0.07
 West 0.33 0.27 0.21 0.16 −0.38 0.10*** −0.66 0.36 −0.11 0.10
Marital Status
 2nd or more Marriages −0.06 0.34 0.53 0.31 0.08 0.10 −0.35 0.22 −0.04 0.11
 Partner 0.18 0.24 0.42 0.36 −0.46 0.09*** −1.07 0.23*** −0.46 0.10***
 Divorced 0.61 0.32 0.16 0.35 −0.35 0.07*** −0.26 0.23 −0.20 0.11
 Widowed 0.31 0.35 0.38 0.31 −0.21 0.08* −0.45 0.23 −0.24 0.10*
 Separated −0.64 0.59 −0.20 0.61 −0.01 0.08 0.49 0.35 −0.10 0.13
 Never Married 0.62 0.29* 0.56 0.29 −0.29 0.07*** −0.58 0.20** −0.31 0.09**
Military Service 0.25 0.27 0.47 0.31 −0.15 0.10 0.08 0.20 −0.02 0.10
Incarceration −0.04 0.18 0.18 0.21 −0.23 0.07** −0.04 0.17 −0.20 0.07**
Welfare History
 Past Recipient −0.15 0.35 −0.26 0.33 0.15 0.11 −0.03 0.19 −0.12 0.10
 Never on Welfare 0.05 0.29 0.01 0.30 0.11 0.09 0.15 0.19 0.01 0.09
Parental Status
 Parent −0.41 0.21 −0.33 0.20 0.06 0.07 0.16 0.16 −0.03 0.08
Denomination
 Methodist −0.23 0.44 0.12 0.10 −0.08 0.21 −0.05 0.09
 Pentecostal −0.54 0.40 0.61 0.08*** 0.94 0.23*** 0.61 0.07***
 Catholic 0.09 0.36 0.06 0.16 0.08 0.19 −0.14 0.10
 Other Protestant −0.32 0.24 0.37 0.07*** 0.08 0.13 0.27 0.08**
 Other Religion −0.11 0.44 0.13 0.17 −0.08 0.28 0.25 0.17
 No Religion 0.83 0.18*** −0.87 0.09*** −1.54 054*** −0.19 0.11
Constant 0.06 0.68 0.51 0.79 2.80 0.22*** -0.08 0.59 1.80 0.28***
F 88.24*** 38.65***
Chi-Square 196.93*** 226.05*** 303.40***
R2 0.05 0.06 0.21 0.10 0.09
N 3486 3485 3486 2918 2919
1

Several independent variables are represented by dummy variables. Gender, 0 = female, 1 = male; Marital Status, married is the excluded category; Region, Urban South is the excluded category; Welfare History, Currently on Welfare is the excluded category; Parental Status, 0 = Non-Parent, 1= Parent; Denomination, Baptist is the excluded category.

2

The analysis for No Current Denomination, Never Attending Religious Services and Church Membership are logistic regressions

*

p < .05;

**

p < .01;

***

p < .001