Religious involvement and educational outcomes:: The role of social capital and extracurricular participation
Religious involvement and educational outcomes:: The role of social capital and extracurricular participation
复制标题
DOI：
10.1111/j.1533-8525.2007.00108.x
复制
发表时间：
2008-12-01
影响因子：
1.2
通讯作者：
Hernandez, Edwin I.
中科院分区：
文献类型：
--
作者：
Glanville, Jennifer L.;Sikkink, David;Hernandez, Edwin I.
以前的研究已经观察到，宗教参与与各种青少年的结果呈正相关，包括学业成绩，但对为什么会这样知之甚少。我们专注于一组相关的潜在解释为什么宗教参与提高教育成果。我们研究是否宗教参与提高青少年的学业成绩的方式，它塑造了他们的社会关系，或社会资本，专注于代际关系和与同龄人的关系。我们还研究了课外参与的潜在干预作用。使用结构方程模型来分析数据从国家青少年健康纵向研究（添加健康），我们研究了社会资本和课外参与的潜在作用，在调解宗教参与和学业成绩之间的关系，高中辍学，依恋学校。我们发现，宗教出席促进更高的代际封闭，友谊网络与高等教育资源和规范，课外参与。在本研究中，这些干预变量只占青少年宗教参与对教育成果影响的一小部分。
Previous research has observed that religious participation is positively related to a wide variety of adolescent outcomes, including academic achievement, but relatively little is known about why this is the case. We focus on a group of related potential explanations for why religious involvement improves educational outcomes. We examine whether religious participation enhances academic outcomes among teens by the way in which it shapes their social ties, or social capital, focusing on both intergenerational relationships and on relationships with peers. We also examine the potential intervening role of extracurricular participation. Using structural equation models to analyze data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health), we examine the potential role of social capital and extracurricular participation in mediating the relationship between religious participation and academic achievement, dropping out of high school, and attachment to school. We find that religious attendance promotes higher intergenerational closure, friendship networks with higher educational resources and norms, and extracurricular participation. These intervening variables account for a small part of the influence of adolescent religious participation on the educational outcomes in this study.