Linking Religious Upbringing to Young Adult Moral Formation

Recent scholarship has conceptualized morality in terms of multidimensional, intuitive traits that influence what people regard as right or wrong. Ample literature shows that religious factors are closely related to moral traits. However, little research has explored links between religious upbringi...

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1. VerfasserIn: Smith, Jesse (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Elektronisch Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Wiley-Blackwell 2023
In: Journal for the scientific study of religion
Jahr: 2023, Band: 62, Heft: 3, Seiten: 481-499
normierte Schlagwort(-folgen):B Moralische Entwicklung / Religiöse Erziehung / Religion / Sozialisation / Religionsausübung / Jugend (12-17 Jahre) / Erwachsener (20-30 Jahre) / Geschichte 2002-2013
RelBib Classification:AD Religionssoziologie; Religionspolitik
AE Religionspsychologie
AG Religiöses Leben; materielle Religion
AH Religionspädagogik
NCB Individualethik
TK Neueste Zeit
weitere Schlagwörter:B Life Course
B Adolescence
B Morality
B Family
B Young adulthood
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Zusammenfassung:Recent scholarship has conceptualized morality in terms of multidimensional, intuitive traits that influence what people regard as right or wrong. Ample literature shows that religious factors are closely related to moral traits. However, little research has explored links between religious upbringing and adult moral outcomes. This study uses longitudinal data from the National Study of Youth and Religion to examine how diverse forms of religious socialization in adolescence are related to two well-validated social-scientific conceptions of morality in young adulthood: Haidt's moral foundations and Schwartz’ values typology. Using regression analyses and Lindeman, Merenda, and Gold (LMG) decomposition methods, I show that different aspects of religious upbringing are linked to the development of both moral foundations and values. Religious factors play a stronger role than either sociodemographics or parent political ideology in predicting young adult moral characteristics. Results highlight the centrality of religious upbringing to the state and trajectory of the population-level moral structure.
ISSN:1468-5906
Enthält:Enthalten in: Journal for the scientific study of religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/jssr.12835