Table 4.
Regression models for religious media use among African Americans and Black Caribbeans
| Watch religious television programs | Listen to religious radio programs | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| African Americans | Black Caribbeans | African Americans | Black Caribbeans | |||||
| B | S.E. | B | S.E. | B | S.E. | B | S.E. | |
| Age | 0.02*** | 0.00 | 0.02** | 0.00 | 0.00# | 0.00 | 0.01** | 0.00 |
| Gender | 0.41*** | 0.07 | 0.33# | 0.16 | 0.55*** | 0.08 | 0.22 | 0.15 |
| Income | −0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | −0.01 | 0.01 |
| Education | −0.02 | 0.01 | −0.09*** | 0.02 | −0.01 | 0.01 | −0.02 | 0.03 |
| Marital status | ||||||||
| Partner | −0.08 | 0.12 | 0.31 | 0.38 | −0.47** | 0.13 | −0.43 | 0.24 |
| Separated | 0.11 | 0.14 | −0.03 | 0.37 | −0.03 | 0.18 | −0.01 | 0.38 |
| Divorced | 0.03 | 0.12 | 0.49* | 0.20 | 0.02 | 0.09 | 0.07 | 0.57 |
| Widowed | −0.18 | 0.14 | 0.02 | 0.37 | −0.33* | 0.15 | −0.09 | 0.46 |
| Never married | −0.18* | 0.08 | −0.07 | 0.19 | −0.38*** | 0.09 | −0.21 | 0.19 |
| Region | ||||||||
| Northeast | −0.57*** | 0.11 | −0.17 | 0.16 | −0.77*** | 0.13 | −0.24 | 0.21 |
| North Central | −0.40*** | 0.10 | – | – | −0.66*** | 0.12 | – | – |
| West | −0.38** | 0.11 | – | – | −0.80*** | 0.16 | – | – |
| Denomination | ||||||||
| Methodist | −0.06 | 0.14 | 0.06 | 0.20 | −0.11 | 0.18 | −0.04 | 0.33 |
| Pentecostal | 0.57*** | 0.12 | 0.24 | 0.31 | 0.22 | 0.14 | 0.59** | 0.18 |
| Catholic | −0.13 | 0.13 | −0.72*** | 0.15 | −0.53* | 0.21 | −0.84*** | 0.17 |
| Episcopalian | – | – | −0.72** | 0.23 | – | – | −0.57* | 0.21 |
| Seventh Day Adventist | – | – | −0.62* | 0.23 | – | – | 0.36 | 0.28 |
| Other Protestant | −0.21* | 0.10 | −0.07 | 0.14 | −0.40*** | 0.11 | −0.19 | 0.24 |
| Other religion | −0.40*** | 0.22 | −0.97* | 0.45 | −0.97** | 0.32 | −0.68 | 0.51 |
| No affiliation | −0.79*** | 0.10 | −1.05*** | 0.24 | −1.07*** | 0.13 | −1.21*** | 0.15 |
| Functional status | 0.09 | 0.05 | 0.13 | 0.20 | −0.02 | 0.06 | 0.15 | 0.13 |
| Country of origin | ||||||||
| Spanish | – | – | 0.65*** | 0.12 | – | – | −0.13 | 0.19 |
| Haiti | – | – | 0.82*** | 0.15 | – | – | 0.46 | 0.30 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | – | – | 0.00 | 0.18 | – | – | −0.05 | 0.22 |
| Other English | – | – | 0.16 | 0.11 | – | – | 0.14 | 0.27 |
| Immigration status | ||||||||
| 0–5 years | – | – | −0.32 | 0.35 | – | – | 0.79* | 0.31 |
| 6–10 years | – | – | 0.59# | 0.29 | – | – | 0.78** | 0.23 |
| 11–20 years | – | – | 0.23 | 0.21 | – | – | 0.40 | 0.33 |
| More than 21 years | – | – | 0.179 | 0.29 | – | – | 0.55** | 0.17 |
| N | 3551 | 1575 | 3551 | 1575 | ||||
| Model F value | 49.94*** | 3157.54*** | 29.52*** | 525.41*** | ||||
| R2 | 0.17 | 0.22 | 0.13 | 0.21 | ||||
Regressions control for age, gender (0 = male), income, education, marital status (0 = married), region (0 = South for African Americans and 0 = all other regions for Black Caribbeans), and denomination (0 = Baptist). Income is coded in dollars and has been divided by 5,000. Regressions for Black Caribbeans additionally control for Country of Origin (0 = Jamaica) and Immigration Status (0 = U.S. born)
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