Taya A Collyer
The eye of the beholder: how do public health researchers interpret regression coefficients? A qualitative study
BMC public health
theological sociological psychological analyses religion suggest religiosity associates positively values enhance transcendence preserve social order protect individuals uncertainty negatively values emphasize selfindulgence favor intellectual emotional openness change basis integrated set hypotheses generated relate religiosity importance individuals attribute 10 basic types human values across religious groups hypotheses largely confirmed educated adult samples israeli jews n 635 spanish roman catholics n 478 dutch calvinist protestants n 217 greek orthodox n 400 hypotheses also largely confirmed representative west german sample n 1807 different measures religiosity values pattern correlations robust across subsamples divided age gender education income lutheran protestants roman catholics