Exploring Autonomy and Relatedness in Church as Predictors of Children's Religiosity and Relationship with God
Concerns about the shifting religious landscape for young people in the United States provides the impetus to expand research investigating children's experiences in Christian education. A significant number of children regularly attend Christian education in church and yet there is limited res...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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[2019]
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Christian education journal
Year: 2020, Volume: 17, Issue: 1, Pages: 52-70 |
| IxTheo Classification: | CB Christian life; spirituality KBQ North America KDD Protestant Church KDG Free church RF Christian education; catechetics |
| Further subjects: | B
relatedness
B Children's religiosity B Christian Education B Autonomy B Sunday School |
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| Summary: | Concerns about the shifting religious landscape for young people in the United States provides the impetus to expand research investigating children's experiences in Christian education. A significant number of children regularly attend Christian education in church and yet there is limited research investigating how those programs support children's faith. Guided by self-determination theory, this research investigates whether instructional practices can support children's religiosity and relationship with God. The present study specifically assessed whether children's perceived relatedness with adults and peers in church, and children's perceived autonomy in Sunday school, predicted children's religiosity and relationship with God. Two hierarchical multiple regressions were conducted to identify if the church variables were significant predictors of an identified relationship to God. Neither perceived relatedness in church nor perceived autonomy in Sunday school were significant predictors of identified religiosity. However, perceived relatedness in church did significantly predict relationship with God. |
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| ISSN: | 2378-525X |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Christian education journal
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0739891319876654 |