ERIC Number: EJ796407
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Publication Date: 2008
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Religious Involvement and Attitudes toward Parenting among Low-Income Urban Women
Hill, Terrence D.; Burdette, Amy M.; Regnerus, Mark; Angel, Ronald J.
Journal of Family Issues, v29 n7 p882-900 2008
The authors employ data from the Welfare, Children, and Families project, a probability sample of 2,402 low-income women with children living in low-income neighborhoods in Boston, Chicago, and San Antonio, to test whether religious attendance is associated with parental satisfaction, perceived parental demands, and parental distress over 2 years. They also consider three potential mediators of the association between religious attendance and attitudes toward parenting: social support, self-esteem, and psychological distress. Results show that women who frequently attend religious services report greater parental satisfaction, perceive fewer parental demands, and report less parental distress than do women who attend less frequently. The authors also find that the mediators under study help to partially explain the relationship between religious attendance and attitudes toward parenting. (Contains 6 tables.)
Descriptors: Neighborhoods, Low Income, Females, Parent Attitudes, Child Rearing, Probability, Religion, Urban Areas, Social Support Groups, Self Esteem
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Language: English
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