Anomia and Religiosity: Data from a Panel Study of Middle-Aged Subjects

Kanagy, Conrad L.; Willits, Fern K.; Crider, Donald M.

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“…See Table 3 for the religiosity index. This index focuses on religiosity as a key form of social integration and support, which has been noted to reduce personal feelings of anomie (Kanagy, Willits, and Crider, 1990). In order to construct composite measures of anomie and religiosity, a considerable number of items presumably relating to each attribute were subjected to factor analysis, correlational analysis, and the computation of Chronbach's alpha.…”

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Anomie, Deviance, and the Religious Factor: Data from 104 NFL Players

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2014

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The proliferation of deviant and criminal behavior among National Football League (NFL) players has garnered unprecedented attention over the past decade. Why are many of these wealthy and famous athletes engaged in deviant and illegal behavior? And more importantly, can this bad behavior be mitigating and deterred via a form of social support?This paper examines the hypothesis that the religious factor (as a form of social support) acts as a deterrent to deviant/illegal behavior and as a key buffer between anomie and deviance (arrests). These relationships are examined in a snowball sample of 104 NFL players. It was found that religiosity reduces personal anomie among players in the study group by enhancing positive group integration and support. Religiosity, also, appears to have a deterrent effect on deviance/illegal behavior as well as a buffering effect between anomie and deviance, as the multiplicative term suggests there is an interaction effect.

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Anomie, Deviance, and the Religious Factor: Data from 104 NFL Players

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Carter²

2014

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“…En primer lugar, porque el mismo Durkheim (2012) propone en Las formas elementales de la vida religiosa a la religión como una forma de integración social y, de esta manera, atenuación de la anomia. Además, diversos estudios han encontrado que ir continuamente a la iglesia está relacionado con una menor percepción de anomia (Hong, 1981;Kanagy, Willits, & Crider, 1990;Martin & Stack, 1983;Stack, 1981); además, se encuentra que mayores índices de religiosidad tienen un efecto disuasorio en participar en actividades ilegales y posee un efecto amortiguador clave entre la anomia personal y el comportamiento ilegal (Carter & Carter, 2014).…”

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“…Lo anterior también se refleja en el estudio de Kanagy et al (1990), quienes encontraron que cuando la religiosidad se medía como la aceptación de las creencias tradicionales sobre la existencia y la omnipotencia de una deidad, la relación entre religiosidad y anomia pasaba de ser negativa a positiva. En este orden de ideas, concluyeron que "cuanto mayor es la adherencia a las creencias tradicionales acerca de Dios, mayor es la anomia" (Kanagy et al, 1990, p.233).…”

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“…En este orden de ideas, concluyeron que "cuanto mayor es la adherencia a las creencias tradicionales acerca de Dios, mayor es la anomia" (Kanagy et al, 1990, p.233). Además, este mismo estudio provee una idea de por qué las diferencias única-mente se encontraron en los puntajes de la Escala de McClosky y Schaar, dado que los autores consideran que la Escala de Srole se aproxima de una manera incompleta para analizar la relación entre anomia y religiosidad (Kanagy et al, 1990). Esta relación, como demuestra la literatura, es multidimensional (Carter & Carter, 2014), y lleva a que los autores propusieran que "los futuros estudios empíricos deben tener en cuenta una variedad de respuestas psicológicas que vinculan a las personas con sus mundos sociales" (Kanagy et al, 1990, p. 233); aspecto que se relaciona directamente con la propuesta de McClosky y Schaar (1965a) y las reflexiones que Bautista & Vera (2015) recogen de ésta.…”

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Escalas de anomia social: Confiabilidad y estructura factorial en una muestra colombiana

Cortazar

2018

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“…Dit onzekere en wantrouwig toekomstbeeld verzwakt wanneer men kerkelijk geïntegreerd is en deelneemt aan het verenigingsleven. Dit werd ook reeds gevonden door andere onderzoekers (Lee & Clyde, 1974;Carr & Hauser, 1976;Kanagy, Willits & Crider, 1990). Na het genoten hebben van hoger onderwijs zijn dit de sterkste predictoren van een mindere mate van onzekerheid en wantrouwen.…”

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Sociaal kapitaal, levensbeschouwelijke betrokkenheid en maatschappelijke integratie in België

Billiet¹

1998

Tijdschrift Voor Sociologie

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This study analyses on an empirical way the relationship between the involvement in religious or ideological associations and a number of indicators of social integration from the viewpoint of social Capital. Social integration is understood as the maintenance of value orientations and attitudes that are favourable for the justification and the functioning of democracy. Social capital is studied on the individual level. It is analysed to what extent the religious involvement and the active participation in voluntary associations has a moderating effect on a number of indicators of social disintegration: distrust in others and in the future, feeling threatened by ethnic minorities, racist views, utilitarian individualism, political alienation, and the lack of political interest and participation in voting. As was expected, religious involvement and active participation in voluntary associations are negatively correlated with these indicators of social disintegration, but the net effects are rather weak. This is partially due to the defective measurement of the predictors. More extensive measurements of active participation in voluntary associations and other networks must be included in future studies.

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Anomia and Religiosity: Data from a Panel Study of Middle-Aged Subjects

Cited by 5 publications

References 28 publications

Anomie, Deviance, and the Religious Factor: Data from 104 NFL Players

Anomie, Deviance, and the Religious Factor: Data from 104 NFL Players

Escalas de anomia social: Confiabilidad y estructura factorial en una muestra colombiana

Sociaal kapitaal, levensbeschouwelijke betrokkenheid en maatschappelijke integratie in België

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