Religious Commitment and Empathic Concern: An Empirical Study of German Youth
There is very extensive literature on whether and how religiosity and empathy are related. Such research shows very different results, with some finding a positive influence while others seeing no influence. This paper presents research conducted on German youth (N=2157) regarding the question of ho...
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Brill
[2018]
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Journal of empirical theology
Jahr: 2018, Band: 31, Heft: 2, Seiten: 239-264 |
| normierte Schlagwort(-folgen): | B
Deutschland
/ Jugend
/ Religiöses Engagement
/ Soziokultureller Faktor
/ Einfühlung
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Religionssoziologie; Religionspolitik AE Religionspsychologie KBB Deutsches Sprachgebiet ZD Psychologie |
| weitere Schlagwörter: | B
socio-cultural orientation
B Youth B Empathic concern B Religiosity B Empirical Research |
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| Zusammenfassung: | There is very extensive literature on whether and how religiosity and empathy are related. Such research shows very different results, with some finding a positive influence while others seeing no influence. This paper presents research conducted on German youth (N=2157) regarding the question of how young people score on empathic concern and which concepts function as predictors. Therefore, different concepts on religious commitment are included, and in order to properly assess the meaning of religiosity in the social context of young people, socio-cultural concepts and socio-demographic characteristics are similarly included. The findings show that around two thirds of the respondents score positive or very positive on empathic concern, and that empathic concern correlates with both religious and socio-cultural concepts. Our regression analysis shows that among religious concepts the centrality of religiosity has the strongest influence (β=.220) and among the socio-religious concepts the students' support for multiculturalism is the strongest factor (β=.195). Admittedly, the beta of sex is even higher, as being female shows the strongest influence on empathic concern (β=.265). |
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| ISSN: | 1570-9256 |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: Journal of empirical theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15709256-12341376 |