Abstract
In their recent analysis of five counties in North Carolina, Ellison and George (1994) reported a positive association between frequency of church attendance and a variety of social resources. Using the Americans' Changing Lives data, this study replicates Ellison and George's analysis. The results of this study do not differ substantively from Ellison and George's observations in a southeastern community. In comparison to less frequent churchgoers, attenders report larger networks, more frequent telephone and inperson contacts, and enhanced perceptions of the supportive quality of their relationships. Also, this study finds no evidence to suggest that the observed social resource advantages among frequent attenders are the product of an overrepresentation of extroverted individuals and/or an underrepresentation of more neurotic persons among regular churchgoers. Finally, religious attendance does not appear to be more important to the constitution of individual social resources in the South than elsewhere.
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