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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Autor principal: Smith, Jesse M. (Autor)
Tipo de documento: Electrónico Artículo
Lenguaje:Inglés
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Interlibrary Loan:Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany)
Publicado: 2023
En: Journal for the scientific study of religion
Año: 2023, Volumen: 62, Número: 3, Páginas: 481-499
(Cadenas de) Palabra clave estándar:B Desarrollo moral / Educación religiosa / Religión / Socialización / Práctica religiosa / Jóvenes (12-17 Jahre) / Adulto (20-30 Jahre) / Historia 2002-2013
Clasificaciones IxTheo:AD Sociología de la religión
AE Psicología de la religión
AG Vida religiosa
AH Pedagogía de la religión
NCB Ética individual
TK Período contemporáneo
Otras palabras clave:B Life Course
B Adolescence
B Morality
B Family
B Young adulthood
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Sumario: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
Obras secundarias:Enthalten in: Journal for the scientific study of religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/jssr.12835