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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Sep 18.
Published in final edited form as: Rev Relig Res. 2017 May 2;59(3):367–393. doi: 10.1007/s13644-017-0291-8

Appendix C.

Pairwise Correlations Between All Religious Indicator Variables at Wave 1

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21
Religious Beliefs (1) Belief in afterlife 1
(2) Belief in angels .457 1
(3) Belief in demons .394 .487 1
(4) Belief in miracles .380 .512 .350 1
(5) Belief in God .289 .433 .232 .447 1
(6) Belief in judgement day .258 .382 .313 .399 .465 1
Religious Exclusivity (7) Covert others .178 .193 .214 .198 .170 .218 1
(8) Practice one religion .139 .146 .168 .192 .188 .236 .144 1
(9) View of truth .221 .249 .292 .249 .202 .278 .281 .408 1
(10) Pick and choose .132 .154 .147 .150 .142 .191 .117 .233 .231 1
External Practice (11) Attendance .243 .311 .263 .332 .339 .345 .268 .277 .359 .214 1
(12) Prayed with parents .185 .230 .181 .271 .245 .254 .173 .141 .202 .118 .312 1
(13) Religious group .219 .270 .231 .311 .292 .282 .225 .184 .271 .143 .550 .284 1
(14) Share faith .202 .225 .233 .236 .211 .197 .212 .099 .218 .089 .383 .253 .379 1
Personal Practice (15) Prayer frequency .301 .428 .287 .451 .480 .414 .213 .201 .281 .171 .428 .388 .381 .305 1
(16) Read scripture .240 .298 .254 .335 .289 .320 .220 .233 .287 .178 .393 .350 .377 .262 .518 1
(17) Fasted .168 .116 .159 .152 .108 .126 .127 .077 .126 .057 .234 .143 .220 .252 .192 .193 1
(18) Day of rest .187 .222 .182 .266 .222 .221 .166 .144 .213 .124 .303 .249 .310 .223 .303 .320 .224 1
Religious Salience (19) Importance of faith .335 .428 .322 .461 .485 .447 .247 .282 .329 .218 .496 .355 .426 .326 .571 .474 .237 .355 1
(20) How decide .247 .268 .273 .270 .188 .229 .202 .200 .320 .148 .276 .200 .254 .213 .321 .355 .161 .212 .381 1
(21) Commitment to God .247 .354 .253 .391 .372 .381 .242 .234 .299 .171 .432 .298 .383 .276 .422 .383 .147 .298 .513 .301 1

Notes. All correlations are significant at the p < .001 level. Sample sizes for each pair of variables range from 3,340 to 3,369.