Changing Patterns of Religious Affiliation, Religiosity, and Marital Dissolution: A 35-Year Study of Three-Generation Families

McDaniel, Susan A.; Boco, Adébiyi Germain; Zella, Sara

doi:10.1080/10502556.2013.837723

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“…Evidence on religious participation and late life divorce is sparse, but the literature on studies of remarriage after divorce or widowhood are even more limited [15, 68–70]. Remarriage is a complex and understudied process [71, 72].…”

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Religious service attendance, divorce, and remarriage among U.S. nurses in mid and late life

Kubzansky

VanderWeele

2018

PLoS ONE

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Prior research has suggested religious participation can promote marital satisfaction and stability. However, current literature has mainly focused on early life divorce, and used cross-sectional data, leaving open the question of the directionality of effects. We evaluated the prospective associations between service attendance and marital stability in mid and late life considering either 1) divorce or separation; or 2) remarriage, as separate outcomes. Data were drawn from the Nurses’ Health Study, a large prospective cohort study that consisted of US female nurses in their 50s at study enrollment, with repeated measures of service attendance and marital status over 14 years of follow-up from 1996–2010. During follow up, among 66,444 initially married nurses who were mainly Christians, frequent service attendance was associated with 50% lower risk of divorce (95% CI: 32%, 63%), and 52% lower risk of either divorce or separation (95%CI: 37%, 63%). Among initially divorced or separated women, frequent service attendance was not associated with subsequent likelihood of remarriage; however, among widowed women, women who attended services frequently had 49% increased likelihood of remarriage (95% CI: 13%, 97%) compared to those women who did not. The study provides evidence that in this cohort of US nurses, frequent service attendance is associated with lower risk of becoming divorced in mid- and late- life, and increased likelihood of remarriage among widowed nurses, but not among divorced or separated nurses.

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Religious service attendance, divorce, and remarriage among U.S. nurses in mid and late life

Kubzansky

VanderWeele

2018

PLoS ONE

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“…Then we added the block ratings for dyadic religiosity to test our second hypothesis. Unlike some previous studies that only look at β weights of presumably correlated religious variables to make their claims (see McDaniel et al, 2013) we intentionally examined both the amount of variance due to each block of variables and the unique variance tied to each variable in a given step.…”

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Religiosity and relationship quality in dating relationships.

Aragoni¹,

Stanley²,

Smith-Acuña³

et al. 2023

Couple and Family Psychology: Research and Practice

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Associations between higher religiosity and positive marital outcomes are well documented (e.g., Mahoney et al., 1999;Olson et al., 2015), but less attention has been paid to religiosity in unmarried relationships. This study examines associations between religiosity and relationship quality in a sample of individuals in early adulthood (N = 354) who were in serious but unmarried different-sex relationships (mean duration of 4 years). Individuals rated their own religiosity (overall religiousness and attendance) as well as religiosity in their relationship with their partner (dyadic attendance and perception of religious differences with partner). Relationship quality was assessed on three variables: relationship satisfaction, commitment, and negative interaction using three-stage, hierarchical linear regressions. Control variables (age, income, education, relationship duration) were entered in Block 1, individuals' ratings of their own religiosity were entered in Block 2, and then individuals' ratings of dyadic religiosity were entered in Block 3. Results indicated that individual religiosity was only associated with commitment, while dyadic religiosity was associated with all three measures of relationship quality. Greater dyadic attendance and lower religious differences were associated with greater commitment above and beyond both individual religious variables and standard control variables. Having greater religious differences was associated with lower relationship satisfaction and increased negative interaction. Hence, dyadic aspects of religiosity were associated with relationship quality even after controlling for individuals' levels of religiosity. Implications for further research and practice are discussed.

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“…However, given the nature of religion is both diverse and complex in its effect, using only one of these measures will unlikely explain the full effect of religion on behavior. Further, while some researchers have investigated the effect of religious affiliation or religious observance (also referred to as religiousness or religiosity) using data on the frequency of attendance at religious activities (Babchuk, Crockett, and Ballweg 1967;Balakrishnan et al 1987;Bartkowski and Xu 2010;Bartkowski, Xu, and Bartkowski 2019;Bartkowski, Xu, and Levin 2008;Brown, Orbuch, and Bauermeister 2008;Call and Heaton 1997;Crockett, Babchuk, and Ballweg 1969;Ellison, Burdette, and Bradford Wilcox 2010;Lehrer and Chiswick 1993;Rendon et al 2014;Vaaler, Ellison, and Powers 2009;Village, Williams, and Francis 2010), the importance of religion in one's life, or both (Gurrentz 2017;McDaniel, Boco, and Zella 2013). Few, if any, have tested the effect of multiple measures of religion (affiliation and observance) on relationship stability at the couple level, using multiple waves of panel data.…”

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“…While much of the literature focuses on married couples (Bratcher 1982;Call and Heaton 1997;Lehrer and Chiswick 1993;Li, Kubzansky, and VanderWeele 2018;McDaniel, Boco, and Zella 2013;Tuttle and Davis 2015;Village, Williams, and Francis 2010), and often, first married couples (Babchuk, Crockett, and Ballweg 1967;Brown, Orbuch, and Bauermeister 2008;Burchinal and Chancellor 1963;Crockett, Babchuk, and Ballweg 1969;Curtis and Ellison 2002;Gurrentz 2017;McDaniel, Boco, and Zella 2013;Schramm et al 2012;Vaaler, Ellison, and Powers 2009;Woods and Emery 2002), which can lead to small sample sizes-for example, 144 in Babchuk, Crockett, and Ballweg (1967) and 179 in Crockett, Babchuk, and Ballweg (1969)and therefore limit the transferability of results. We study the effects of religion on the stability of both cohabiting (de facto) and marital relationships as prior research (Balakrishnan et al 1987;Bartkowski and Xu 2010;Bratcher 1982;Brown, Orbuch, and Bauermeister 2008;Cutrona et al 2011;Ellison, Burdette, and Bradford Wilcox 2010;Gurrentz 2017;Lehrer 2004;Xu, Hudspeth, and Bartkowski 2005) has shown that union type effects relationship stability.…”

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“…This problem is exacerbated if people do not divorce postseparation (Bracher et al 1993) or the period between separation and divorce is lengthy. Some researchers (Balakrishnan et al 1987;Bracher et al 1993;Call and Heaton 1997) sought to address this by using the date of separation rather than divorce while others included both (Gurrentz 2017;Lehrer and Chiswick 1993;Li, Kubzansky, and VanderWeele 2018;McDaniel, Boco, and Zella 2013;Vaaler, Ellison, and Powers 2009;Village, Williams, and Francis 2010)-on occasion only using the date of separation if data on divorce were not available-again leading to overestimation. Overestimation could still occur if couples separate in the same year that they enter a new relationship, the information collected in an annual survey could still show the respondent to be in a relationship, but deeper investigation may reveal that at least one partner is in a relationship with another person.…”

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Religion as a Determinant of Relationship Stability

Boulis,

Torgler

2023

Scientific Study of Religion

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There is a burgeoning literature that investigates the effects of religion on relationship dissolution. This study is distinguished from prior scholarship in three broad areas: The investigation estimates the effect of religion on relationship stability using multiple measures of religious affiliation and religious observance; it is based on information of the respondent and their partner for both cohabiting and marital relationships; and it is performed using multiple waves of a large‐scale nationally representative panel data set, the Household Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey. It addresses key limitations, such as: the use of a single measure of religion, a tendency to only use married individual data, and an overreliance on cross‐sectional data. The results indicate that intrafaith couples tend to have a higher degree of relationship stability than other couple types; although, once other factors are controlled for, this effect is no longer statistically significant. We also find religiosity, in particular, religious attendance has a large positive effect on stability in intrafaith couples but can lower stability in interfaith and mixed couples.

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Changing Patterns of Religious Affiliation, Religiosity, and Marital Dissolution: A 35-Year Study of Three-Generation Families

Cited by 8 publications

References 77 publications

Religious service attendance, divorce, and remarriage among U.S. nurses in mid and late life

Religious service attendance, divorce, and remarriage among U.S. nurses in mid and late life

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