Relationships Between Sense of School Community and Sense of Religious Commitment Among Christian High School Students

Abstract

Quantitative analysis was used to determine whether relationships could be determined between sense of school community and sense of religious commitment among high school students (N = 71) based on their scores from separate instruments measuring the two constructs. Study results provide evidence that relationships do indeed exist and that differences between the two constructs can be identified within the data. Correlations between the two constructs were higher among girls than among boys, but there were no significant gender differences in either sense of community or in religious commitment. Implications of these results are discussed and recommendations for further research are provided.

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∗∗Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level (2-tailed).

∗Correlation is significant at the .05 level (2-tailed).

∗∗Correlation is significant at the .01 level (2-tailed).

N = 71. CSCI, Classroom and School Community Inventory; RCI-10, Religious Commitment Inventory-10.

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Notes on contributors

MERVYN J. WIGHTING

Mervyn J. Wighting works in the School of Education at Regent University.

JING LIU

Jing Liu works at Northfield Mount Hermon School in Massachusettes.