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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 D.

Pairwise Correlations Between All Religious Indicator Variables at Wave 2

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 .524 1
(3) Belief in demons .484 .616 1
(4) Belief in miracles .473 .577 .455 1
(5) Belief in God .389 .469 .318 .556 1
(6) Belief in judgement day .392 .471 .410 .522 .516 1
Religious Exclusivity (7) Covert others .289 .331 .312 .329 .277 .332 1
(8) Practice one religion .236 .285 .264 .283 .270 .319 .284 1
(9) View of truth .333 .360 .369 .344 .294 .352 .349 .497 1
(10) Pick and choose .153 .184 .165 .206 .165 .225 .194 .276 .286 1
External Practice (11) Attendance .352 .366 .331 .409 .390 .418 .366 .367 .433 .272 1
(12) Prayed with parents .263 .284 .279 .332 .309 .311 .249 .224 .302 .179 .381 1
(13) Religious group .270 .319 .279 .370 .345 .393 .327 .288 .357 .235 .598 .368 1
(14) Share faith .326 .322 .280 .340 .299 .295 .275 .170 .247 .146 .439 .303 .381 1
Personal Practice (15) Prayer frequency .426 .478 .393 .535 .542 .483 .311 .313 .388 .233 .526 .413 .461 .412 1
(16) Read scripture .318 .344 .341 .360 .315 .381 .320 .328 .429 .262 .541 .404 .481 .379 .566 1
(17) Fasted .187 .139 .186 .175 .144 .159 .158 .109 .154 .106 .319 .211 .264 .289 .250 .254 1
(18) Day of rest .234 .240 .255 .248 .228 .265 .264 .241 .335 .173 .373 .301 .357 .232 .338 .360 .253 1
Religious Salience (19) Importance of faith .422 .479 .408 .547 .569 .528 .372 .371 .462 .276 .596 .413 .515 .421 .673 .552 .255 .359 1
(20) How decide .293 .285 .305 .287 .227 .279 .242 .249 .354 .192 .347 .258 .289 .261 .374 .417 .186 .278 .413 1
(21) Commitment to God .316 .363 .282 .420 .368 .400 .291 .253 .331 .196 .454 .305 .416 .331 .506 .452 .195 .320 .550 .317 1

Notes. All correlations are significant at the p < .001 level. Sample sizes for each pair of variables range from 2,570 to 2,595.