Did Gender Egalitarianism Weaken Religiosity in Baby Boom Women? A Developmental-Historical Approach

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Sociology of Religion Pub Date : 2023-09-27 DOI:10.1093/socrel/srad032

Merril Silverstein, Woosang Hwang, Jeung Hyun Kim, Maria T Brown

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Abstract

Abstract This investigation used long-term longitudinal survey data from baby boomer women to identify whether strengthening gender role egalitarianism in early adulthood predicted declines in religious service attendance and religious intensity in later life. The aging of this cohort coincided with dramatic societal shifts in gender values and religiosity. The data were derived from 350 women participating in the Longitudinal Study of Generations, a study originally fielded in 1971 of families living in Southern California. Respondents were initially assessed in their late teens and early 20s and followed up to their early-to-mid 60s. Using growth curve modeling, we linked the change in egalitarian gender attitudes from 1971 to 1988 to a change in religiosity from 1994 to 2016. Women who became more egalitarian in their gender attitudes experienced sharper declines in religious intensity, but not in religious attendance in the period studied. Controlling for life-course transitions did not alter these results. The findings are discussed in terms of the connection between two asynchronous social changes occurring over the lives of women in a uniquely positioned birth cohort.

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性别平等主义削弱了婴儿潮女性的宗教信仰吗?发展-历史方法

摘要:本研究利用对婴儿潮时期出生的女性的长期纵向调查数据，来确定成年早期性别角色平等主义的强化是否预示着晚年宗教服务出席率和宗教强度的下降。这一群体的老龄化与性别价值观和宗教信仰的巨大社会转变相吻合。这些数据来自于参与世代纵向研究的350名女性，这项研究最初于1971年在南加州的家庭中开展。调查对象最初是在他们十几岁和20岁出头时接受评估的，随后一直持续到60岁出头。利用增长曲线模型，我们将1971年至1988年平等主义性别态度的变化与1994年至2016年宗教信仰的变化联系起来。在研究期间，在性别态度上变得更加平等的女性，其宗教信仰强度的下降幅度更大，但参加宗教活动的人数却没有下降。控制生命过程的转变并没有改变这些结果。研究结果讨论了两个不同步的社会变化之间的联系，这些变化发生在一个独特的出生队列中的妇女的生活中。

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