Religiousness and Infidelity: Attendance, but not Faith and Prayer, Predict Marital Fidelity

Autor/inn/en	Atkins, David C.; Kessel, Deborah E.
Titel	Religiousness and Infidelity: Attendance, but not Faith and Prayer, Predict Marital Fidelity
Quelle	In: Journal of Marriage and Family, 70 (2008) 2, S.407-418 (12 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-2445
DOI	10.1111/j.1741-3737.2008.00490.x
Schlagwörter	Marriage; Religion; Attendance; Correlation; Sexuality; Surveys; Predictor Variables; Spouses; Regression (Statistics); Beliefs; Religious Factors; General Social Survey + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ehe; Anwesenheit; Korrelation; Sexualität; Survey; Umfrage; Befragung; Prädiktor; Ehepartner; Regression; Regressionsanalyse; Belief; Glaube
Abstract	High religiousness has been consistently linked with a decreased likelihood of past infidelity but has been solely defined by religious service attendance, a limited assessment of a complex facet of life. The current study developed nine religiousness subscales using items from the 1998 General Social Survey to more fully explore the association between religiousness and infidelity. Interestingly, logistic regressions using currently married participants (N= 1,439) demonstrated that attendance, but not faith, nearness to God, prayer, and other religious attributes, was related to infidelity. Exploratory analyses also found that individuals with high religious importance but low attendance were more likely to have had an affair and weak evidence that marital happiness moderated the association between religiousness and infidelity. (Author).
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