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The impact of religious involvement on trust, volunteering, and perceived cooperativeness: evidence from two British panels
European Sociological Review ( IF 4.099 ) Pub Date : 2023-04-25 , DOI: 10.1093/esr/jcad024
Ozan Aksoy 1 , Dingeman Wiertz 1
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Does religious involvement make people more trusting and prosocial? Considering conflicting theories and mixed prior evidence, we subject this question to a stringent test using large-scale, representative data from the British Household Panel Survey (1991–2009, N ≈ 26,000) and the UK Household Longitudinal Study (2009–2021, N ≈ 80,000). We employ cross-lagged panel models with individual fixed effects to account for time-invariant confounders and reverse causality—two issues that have haunted earlier research. We find that frequency of religious service attendance on average has a positive impact on generalized trust, volunteering, and perceived cooperativeness. Other indicators of religious involvement have weaker effects. We also find variation across religious traditions: the effects of religious attendance are mostly positive for Anglicans and other Protestants, but weaker and mostly statistically insignificant for Catholics, Hindus, and the unaffiliated, and even negative for Muslims when the outcome is perceived cooperativeness. Our findings are robust to alternative model set-ups and hold up after accounting for neighbourhood religious composition, respondent and interviewer ethnicity, and other potential moderators and confounders. Altogether, our study shows that religious involvement can foster prosocial behaviours and attitudes, although in our study this effect is largely restricted to religious service attendance and majority religions.

中文翻译:

宗教参与对信任、志愿服务和感知合作的影响:来自两个英国小组的证据

宗教参与会让人们更加信任和亲社会吗?考虑到相互矛盾的理论和混合的先验证据,我们使用来自英国家庭追踪调查(1991-2009,N≈26,000)和英国家庭纵向研究(2009-2021,N)的大规模代表性数据对这个问题进行了严格的测试≈ 80,000)。我们采用具有个体固定效应的交叉滞后面板模型来解释时不变的混杂因素和反向因果关系——这两个问题一直困扰着早期的研究。我们发现,平均而言,参加宗教仪式的频率对普遍信任、志愿服务和感知合作有积极影响。其他宗教参与指标的影响较弱。我们还发现不同宗教传统的差异:参加宗教活动对英国国教徒和其他新教徒的影响大多是积极的,但对天主教徒、印度教徒和无信仰者的影响较弱,而且在统计上微不足道,当结果被认为是合作时,甚至对穆斯林是消极的。我们的研究结果对于替代模型设置是稳健的,并且在考虑了邻里宗教构成、受访者和采访者的种族以及其他潜在的调节因素和混杂因素之后仍然有效。总而言之,我们的研究表明,宗教参与可以培养亲社会行为和态度,尽管在我们的研究中,这种影响主要限于参加宗教仪式和多数宗教。当结果被认为是合作时,甚至对穆斯林不利。我们的研究结果对于替代模型设置是稳健的,并且在考虑了邻里宗教构成、受访者和采访者的种族以及其他潜在的调节因素和混杂因素之后仍然有效。总而言之,我们的研究表明,宗教参与可以培养亲社会行为和态度,尽管在我们的研究中,这种影响主要限于参加宗教仪式和多数宗教。当结果被认为是合作时,甚至对穆斯林不利。我们的研究结果对于替代模型设置是稳健的,并且在考虑了邻里宗教构成、受访者和采访者的种族以及其他潜在的调节因素和混杂因素之后仍然有效。总而言之,我们的研究表明,宗教参与可以培养亲社会行为和态度,尽管在我们的研究中,这种影响主要限于参加宗教仪式和多数宗教。
更新日期:2023-04-25
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