Effect Of Religious Affiliation Research Articles

A Relational-Cultural Approach to Examining Concealment among Latter-Day Saint Sexual Minorities

Sexual minorities often conceal their sexual identity from others to avoid distal stressors. Such concealment efforts occur more frequently among sexual minorities in religious settings where rejection and discrimination are more likely. Using a sample of 392 Latter-day Saint (“Mormon”) sexual minorities, we assess (a) the effect of religious affiliation on concealment efforts, (b) the relationship between social support, authenticity, and religious commitment on concealment, and (c) the moderating effect of authenticity on religious commitment and concealment. Multi-level model analyses revealed that religious affiliation alone accounted for over half (51.7%) of the variation in concealment efforts for Latter-day Saint sexual minorities. Social support directly was related to less concealment, whereas religious commitment was related to more concealment, with authenticity moderating the impact of religious commitment on concealment efforts. The present study provides insight into how religious sexual minorities may approach relationships and inadvertently wound their chances to connect with others.

Exploring factors influencing domestic violence: a comprehensive study on intrafamily dynamics.

This econometric analysis investigates the nexus between household factors and domestic violence. By considering diverse variables encompassing mood, depression, health consciousness, social media engagement, household chores, density, and religious affiliation, the study aims to comprehend the underlying dynamics influencing domestic violence. Employing econometric techniques, this study examined a range of household-related variables for their potential associations with levels of violence within households. Data on mood, depression, health consciousness, social media usage, household chores, density, and religious affiliation were collected and subjected to rigorous statistical analysis. The findings of this study unveil notable relationships between the aforementioned variables and levels of violence within households. Positive mood emerges as a mitigating factor, displaying a negative correlation with violence. Conversely, depression positively correlates with violence, indicating an elevated propensity for conflict. Increased health consciousness is linked with diminished violence, while engagement with social media demonstrates a moderating influence. Reduction in the time allocated to household chores corresponds with lower violence levels. Household density, however, exhibits a positive association with violence. The effects of religious affiliation on violence manifest diversely, contingent upon household position and gender. The outcomes of this research offer critical insights for policymakers and practitioners working on formulating strategies for preventing and intervening in instances of domestic violence. The findings emphasize the importance of considering various household factors when designing effective interventions. Strategies to bolster positive mood, alleviate depression, encourage health consciousness, and regulate social media use could potentially contribute to reducing domestic violence. Additionally, the nuanced role of religious affiliation underscores the need for tailored approaches based on household dynamics, positioning, and gender.

Religious Transitions, Sexual Minority Status, and Depressive Symptoms from Adolescence to Early Adulthood

Given that sexual minorities have been historically stigmatized within institutions of religion, they may be less likely to exhibit any health benefits from religious participation. In this article, we use data from Waves I and IV of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health to test whether the effects of religious affiliation (becoming affiliated with a religious group) and disaffiliation (no longer affiliating with a religious group) on depressive symptoms are moderated by sexual minority status from adolescence to early adulthood. In regression models adjusted for selection effects, we observed that, compared to respondents who were consistently unaffiliated, becoming affiliated was associated with more depressive symptoms from baseline to follow-up among lesbian, gay, and bisexual respondents, but not among heterosexual respondents. We conclude with the implications of our results as they relate to understanding the health impacts of marginalized groups in social institutions and the importance of selection effects.

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This article investigates the relationship between religion and trust using the Turkish sample from the World Values Surveys (WVS). This study focuses on a majority Muslim nation that has been institutionally secular and democratic for more than 90 years. This study explores the longitudinal relationship between religion and trust from 2001 to 2012, a period of significant social transformation. 
 Over this period, the effects of religion’s covariates on trust outcomes are consistent. However, the findings explore mix supports to the existing literature. Namely, the effects of religious affiliation and behaviour vary on trust outcomes. This study also investigates possible correlations between trust components, and the results do not support the previous findings.

Religiosity and consumer decision making styles of young Indian Muslim consumers

ABSTRACTReligion as a sub-culture is an important part of the socio-cultural environment of consumers and marketers. Notwithstanding the age of reason and rationality, religion has sustained its presence in contemporary societies and there are little prospects of it being completely expunged in the foreseeable future. The effects of religious affiliation and religious commitment (religiosity) on various aspects of consumer behavior have been reported. We attempt to contribute to the limited academic literature in the field of religion and consumer research, more so in the Indian Muslim context. Specifically, the applicability of Sproles & Kendall’s Consumer Style Inventory (CSI) is examined in the context of young Muslim consumers in India. In addition to that, the study also explores the influence of religiosity on consumer decision-making styles of young Indian Muslim consumers measured using the Consumer Style Inventory. Data has been collected from 487 respondents drawn from three states of India. Exploratory factor analysis followed by confirmatory factor analysis revealed six major decision-making styles. The findings also reveal that religiosity has a significant influence on four of the six identified decision-making styles. The study limitations and implications are discussed.

How Does CEO Religious Value Shape Marketing Decisions and Shareholder Value? (WITHDRAWN)

This study asks two unique questions. First, does the CEO’s religious affiliation, a proxy for risk taking, influence the firm’s advertising spending decision? Based on data collected on the religious affiliations of CEOs of publicly listed U.S. firms between 1992 and 2014 from Marquis Who’s Who, and advertising spending and shareholder value from COMPUSTAT, we find higher advertising spending levels for Protestant over Catholic-led firms. Second, is the relationship between advertising spending and shareholder value moderated by the CEO’s religious affiliation? We find that the effect of advertising spending on shareholder value is greater for Protestant than Catholic-led firms. These new results highlight the role of executives’ personal religious values in shaping firms’ marketing spending decisions and shareholder value. The implications are twofold. First, marketing theory needs to incorporate the missing but fundamental effect of religious affiliation based values. Second, Boards of Directors, seeki...

Religious Affiliation, Religiosity, and Academic Performance of University Students: Campus Life Implications for U.S. Universities

ABSTRACTThe authors study the effects of religious affiliation and religiosity on student performance in marketing classes at a university in the United States. Their sample of 740 students comprises faiths spanning 5 major religions. They found a positive interaction effect on performance for Christianity and religiosity, no interaction effect on performance for Judaism, Buddhism, and Hinduism, and a negative interaction effect on performance for Islam and religiosity. Based on these findings, the authors offer policy recommendations related to campus life at U.S. higher education institutions.

Religious Affiliation and Bequest Behavior

Bequest behavior is a highly delicate and complex subject which requires considerable attention by researchers across all disciplines including economics, sociology and psychology. Studying the motives behind bequests becomes critical not only from a socio-psychological perspective but also from a policy perspective. This paper attempts to explore the socio- economic reasons which influence the intention to bequest focusing specifically on the effect of religious affiliation. This study uses survey data from India to test the hypotheses drawn from the anthropology, sociology and consumer behavior literature using logistic regression technique. The results indicate that self-interest negatively impacts the probability of leaving a legacy. Surprisingly, the study finds evidence for negative relationship between religious affiliation and leaving a bequest. This study also reveals that unmarried women are less likely to leave a bequest. Unlike in the philanthropic literature, the research could not find satisfactory evidence of altruism and social norms driving bequest behavior among Indians.

Abstract P088: The Association of Religious Affiliation With Cholesterol Levels Among South Asians: The Mediators of Atherosclerosis in South Asians Living in America (MASALA) Study

Background: South Asians have disproportionately high rates of cardiovascular disease. Dyslipidemia is a common and contributing factor. Objective: We hypothesized that lifestyle behaviors are influenced by religious beliefs and may be associated with cholesterol levels. We determined the associations between religious affiliation and LDL-cholesterol, HDL-cholesterol, and triglycerides among South Asians in the U.S. Methods: We performed cross-sectional analyses of the 2010-2013 baseline data from the MASALA study (n=906). Using multivariate linear regression models, we examined the associations between self-reported religious affiliation (Hinduism/Jainism, Sikhism, Islam, Other and None) and lipid levels after controlling for age, sex, and cholesterol medication use. We determined whether smoking, alcohol use, physical activity, and dietary pattern would explain the association. Results: The mean age was 55±9 years, 46% were women, and 29% were taking cholesterol medications. The majority of respondents were Hindu and/or Jain (74%), followed by 8% Sikh, 7% Islamic, 6% no religious affiliation, and 5% other (Christian, Buddhist, Zoroastrian, and multiple religious affiliations). The mean LDL was 111±32 mg/dl, median HDL was 48 mg/dl (IQR: 40-57), and median triglycerides was 119 mg/dl (IQR: 88-157). The table shows the associations of religious affiliation with lipid levels in serially adjusted models. The majority of the effect of religious affiliation was attenuated by physical activity for LDL; by alcohol use, physical activity and smoking for HDL; and by alcohol use and physical activity for triglycerides. Conclusions: Islamic religious affiliation was associated with higher LDL, triglycerides and lower HDL, and Hinduism was associated with lower HDL. However, lifestyle behaviors completely explained these associations. Thus, religion-specific tailoring of interventions designed to promote healthy lifestyle changes to reduce cholesterol levels among South Asians may be useful.

HIV/AIDS and religion in sub-Saharan Africa: an emerging field of enquiry

In 2000 Robert Garner, a British anthropologist who became an AIDS activist, prefaced an article on the effect of religious affiliation on sexual behaviour in an AIDS-stricken South African township with the comment that the religious perspective was a “virtual foreigner” in the literature on AIDS (Garner, 2000: 41). In a review article on religion and HIV/AIDS policy Jill Olivier noted the longstanding “invisibility of religious organisations to the view of public health and policy makers”. ...

Religious affiliation: buffering negative reactions to service failures

Purpose – This research aims to examine the buffering effect of a firm's religious association on customer reactions to a service failure. Design/methodology/approach – Two scenario-driven studies containing religious and non-religious reasons for a store closing were conducted. Findings – The results from Study 1 suggest that a religious affiliation safeguards against negative reactions to failures related to store policies (see Hoffman et al., 2003). Customers are more likely to forgive transgressing firms when service failures are associated with religion, regardless of attitudes toward the religious group. A follow up study supports the first, even when no specific religion was identified in the scenario, the service failure involved a firm that closed weekly, and a non-student sample was used. Research limitations/implications – While the results provide support for the buffering effects of a religious affiliation against a particular type of service failure – temporary service interruptions due to the observance of religious holidays and celebrations, future research should test the robustness of this effect on technology failures and rude treatment by employees. Originality/value – This paper is the first, to the authors' knowledge, to test the effect of a firm's religious affiliation on customer perceptions of frontline service encounters in general and service failures in particular.

Religion and Interracial Romance: The Effects of Religious Affiliation, Public and Devotional Practices, and Biblical Literalism

ObjectiveThis study examines how religious affiliations, salience, beliefs, and practices influence engagement in interracial dating or romance.MethodsBivariate and multivariate analyses are employed using data from the 2007 Baylor Religion Survey (N = 1,268). Logistic regression models are estimated in order to determine how certain dimensions of religious life predict whether one has engaged in interracial dating or romance, net of sociodemographic and ideological controls.ResultsRelative to evangelicals, mainline Protestants are less likely to have engaged in interracial romance. Those who frequently attend church and affirm biblical literalism are less likely to have dated across race, but those who engage in devotional practices such as prayer and sacred text reading are more likely to have interracialy dated.ConclusionThe relationship between religion and interracial romance is more complex than previously thought. Future studies should both acknowledge and account for this complexity in their analyses.

HPV High Risk and Protective Behaviors: The Effects of Religious Affiliation

The majority of Americans identify themselves as belonging to some religious group. There is a mixed body of literature on whether or not religious affiliation has an influence on engaging in risky behaviors among young adults attending college. This study examined associations between religious affiliation, risky sexual practices, substance use, and family structure among a sample of predominantly white college females attending a southeastern university. Given the high risk of acquiring genital human papillomavirus infection as a result of high risk sexual practices, gaining a better understanding of how religious affiliation can be used to promote healthy sexual behaviors is warranted.

Priming God-Related Concepts Increases Anxiety and Task Persistence

Research on the relationship between religiosity and anxiety has been mixed, with some studies revealing a positive relation and other studies revealing a negative relation. The current research used an experimental design, perhaps for the first time, to examine anxiety and task persistence during a stressful situation. Christians and Atheists/Agnostics/Others were primed with God-related or neutral (non-God related) concepts before completing an unsolvable anagram task described as a measure of verbal intelligence. The results revealed that the God-related primes increased both task persistence and anxiousness, which suggests that experimentally induced God-related thoughts caused participants to persist longer on a stressful task, but also to feel more anxious after finishing it. No effect of religious affiliation was found, however, indicating that God-related priming affected Christians and non-Christians in a similar fashion.

Influence of Religious Affiliation in Alcohol Use Among Adolescents in Trinidad, Tobago, and St. Lucia: A Follow-Up Study

Objective: This study examined the effects of religious affiliation and other demographic variables in alcohol use and attitudes among adolescents in Trinidad, Tobago and St. Lucia. Method: The study used a stratified random sample design of 380 male and 455 female students belonging to the 3 major ethnic groups in Trinidad, Tobago and St. Lucia (Afro-Trinidadian, Indo-Trinidadian, and Mixed group). Results: MANOVA showed an effect for religion, with Hindu adolescents having higher levels of regular alcohol use. Conclusions: This finding supports the existing research in Trinidad and developed countries on the effect of various religious denominations of alcohol use and attitudes.

Union Disruption in Hungary

:This article examines the impact of cultural background, human capital, and labor force participation on union disruption. To study these relationships, retrospective data are examined on the marital history of Hungarian residents taken from a national probability sample in 1992. The discrete time event history approach.is used to show the effects of different predictors on the odds of union disruption. Strong evidence was found for the positive effect of father’s education and the negative effect of religious affiliation on the odds of divorce. Individual’s education has no significant impact on the probability of separation. However, divorce risk is higher when the wife has greater labor force involvement, while husband’s stronger labor market participation decreases the odds of divorce. Lifetime occupational mobility has a positive effect on separation indicating that any deviation from the status-relation between spouses at the time of marriage increases the risk of union disruption.

Lesbians, Gays and Religion

SUMMARY This study measured the effects of religious affiliation and gender on attitudes about lesbians and gay men among 2,846 college graduates who were beginning graduate study in social work or counseling. Males were more negative than females in their attitudes toward both lesbians and gay men. Conservative Protestants were the most negative in their attitudes toward lesbians and gay men, while those who were Atheist, Agnostic, Jewish or claimed no religion were most positive. Beliefs that the Bible forbids homosexuality are discussed and readings and arguments challenging this belief that can be used as class content are presented.

Religious Affiliation and Social Commitment as Determinants of Moral Attitudes in the Prevention of AIDS or the Fight Against Poverty

The present study is an analysis of the effect of religious affiliation and social commitment on moral attitudes in the fight against acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) or the fight against poverty. French citizens (N = 284) who either belonged to the Roman Catholic church or were without religious affiliation, who were committed to the prevention of AIDS or to the fight against poverty, completed a 9-item scale drawn from R. C. Katz, J. Santman, and P. Lonero's (1994) Morally Debatable Behaviors Scale-Revised. Results indicated that the responses were significantly affected by the religious affiliation and beliefs of respondents: Roman Catholics expressed less moral tolerance than nonreligious respondents. An interaction between commitment and religious belief showed that Roman Catholics committed to the fight against AIDS were less tolerant of illegal conduct than those committed to the fight against poverty, whereas no difference appeared between nonreligious respondents. No gender effect appeared.

Religion and the Survival of 1010 Hospitalized Veterans

Objective: To examine the effects of religious affiliation and religious coping on survival of acutely-hospitalized medically-ill male veterans following discharge. Sample and Methods: Between 1987 and 1989, comprehensive psychosocial and physical-health evaluations were performed on a consecutive sample of 1010 patients ages 20–39 and 65–102 years admitted to the general medicine and neurology services of the Veterans Administration (VA) Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina. Religious affiliation and religious coping (the degree to which a patient relied on his religious faith for comfort and strength) were among the variables assessed. Subjects or surviving family members were contacted by telephone in 1996–97 to determine vital status; dates of death were confirmed by the Veterans Administration's Beneficiary Identification and Records Locator Subsystem (BIRLS), death certificate, or the National Death Index. Cox proportional-hazards regression was used to model the effects of religious variables on time to death, controlling for demographic, social, psychiatric, and physical-health covariates. Results: Follow-up was obtained on all 1010 patients. During the observation period, 673 patients died. While a higher proportion of conservative Protestants than members of other religious groups died during this time (70.5% vs. 64.3%, p = .04), the association disappeared once covariates were controlled. Religious coping was unrelated to survival in both bivariate and multivariate analyses (hazard ratio 1.00, 95% CI 0.99–1.01). Conclusions: Neither religious affiliation nor dependence on religion as a coping behavior predicted survival in this sample of medically-ill male veterans. Several reasons for the absence of an effect are explored, notably the fact that the mortality force exerted by age, medical diagnosis, and severity of physical-health problems overwhelmed the weaker effects of psychosocial variables.

The Effects of Religious Affiliation in Northern Ireland upon Levels of Self-disclosure of Undergraduates

ABSTRACT This paper investigates the relationship between self-disclosure levels and religious affiliation of undergraduates in Northern Ireland. Since self-disclosure is usually an indicator of degree of interpersonal trust and intimacy, the primary hypothesis in this study was that, given the political situation in N.I. wherein religious convictions reflect political affiliation, females within this age group would self-disclose more to females of the same religious denomination than to those of the opposite denomination. Inventory scores of self- disclosure were obtained for Catholic and Protestant females, as were behavioural counts of disclosures made in interviews. In these interviews, the interviewer ‘presented’ as either a Catholic (C) or Protestant (P) to the 40 subjects (20 C, 20 P). Measures were obtained of strength of religious affiliation and degree of ‘liking’ for the interviewer. The results, which revealed few significant differences in self-disclosure levels, are discussed in the context...