Table 3.
Predictors1,2 | No Current Denomination | Never Attending Religious Services | Service Attendance | Church Membership | Congregation Activities | |||||
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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 |
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.
The analysis for No Current Denomination, Never Attending Religious Services and Church Membership are logistic regressions
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