Sustaining Young Canadian Baptists in the Faith: Exploring the Connection between Religious Affect and Parental Religious Attendance

Figures & data

Table 1. The Francis Scale of Attitude toward Christianity: item rest of test correlation and item endorsements.

	r	Yes %
I find it boring to listen to the Bible*	.43	19
I know that Jesus helps me	.67	83
Saying my prayers helps me a lot	.58	67
The church is very important to me	.64	79
I think going to church is a waste of my time*	.50	9
I want to love Jesus	.64	89
I think church services are boring*	.47	19
I think people who pray are stupid*	.47	4
God helps me to lead a better life	.70	80
I like to learn about God very much	.77	82
God means a lot to me	.81	83
I believe that God helps people	.73	90
Prayer helps me a lot	.71	71
I know that Jesus is very close to me	.76	73
I think praying is a good thing	.75	87
I think the Bible is out of date*	.49	14
I believe that God listens to prayers	.67	83
Jesus doesn’t mean anything to me*	.55	6
God is very real to me	.68	79
I think saying prayers does no good*	.66	5
The idea of God means much to me	.75	80
I believe that Jesus still helps people	.79	87
I know that God helps me	.78	80
I find it hard to believe in God*	.59	17
Alpha	.95

*These items are reverse coded; Yes = sum of agree and agree strongly responses; r = correlation between individual item and sum of the other 23 items.

Table 2. Means and standard deviations.

	M	SD
Attitude toward Christianity	99.4	15.0
Personal attendance	4.5	1.0
Mothers’ attendance	4.2	1.4
Fathers’ attendance	3.7	1.9

Table 3. Correlation matrix.

	FSAC	Mot	Fat	Sel	Age
Sex	.05	–.01	–.01	–.05	–.08
Age	–.10	–.03	–.00	.02
Self attendance (Sel)	.20***	.49***	.46***
Fathers’ attendance (Fat)	.26***	.66***
Mothers’ attendance (Mot)	.18***

***p < .001.

Table 4. Regression models.

	Model 1	Model 2	Model 3
Personal factors
Sex	.02	.03	.03
Age	–.09	–.10	–.10
Church attendance
Self		.19***	.11
Parental church attendance
Father			.21**
Mother			–.03
r^2	.01	.05	.08
Δ	.01	.04***	.03**

**p < .01; ***p < .001.