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Sexuality Standards and Religiosity
Are sexuality standards related to church attendance and self reports of religiosity?
| Number Times Attended Church Last Month by Sexuality Standard Grouping | ||||||
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| Sample | < Love | Love | > Love | f | df | p |
| Oklahoma | 1.4a | 1.9a | 5.9b | 10 | (2, 79) | 0.001 |
| Love Test | 1.0a | 1.3b | 5.0c | 900.0 | (2, 10774) | < 0.001 |
Note: Means with different subscripts are significantly different
using Tukey HSD post hoc comparisons (p < .05). It
should be noted that with the large Love Test sample size, the
small group differences between the < Love and Love groups
was statistically significant even though those two groups only
differed only slightly.
For the Oklahoma Sample, people who require engagement or marriage
prior to sex reported attending church more frequently during
the last month than did 1) those who require only love prior to
the onset of sexual relations and 2) those who require friendship
or casual acquaintance prior to the onset of sexual intercourse.
For The love Test sample the same pattern of difference was evident,
however, due to the large sample size, all three groups differed
in their reports of church attendance during the last month.
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Sexuality Standards and Self ratings of Religiosity
The Love Test sample was asked to rate themselves in terms of how religious they consider themselves to be. Response options were:
| Self Ratings of Religiosity by Sexuality Standard Grouping | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Sexuality Standards Groupings | |||
| How religious? | < Love | Love | > Love |
| Not Religious | 48% | 34% | 10% |
| Somewhat religious | 33% | 38% | 21% |
| Moderately religious | 17% | 24% | 37% |
| Very Religious | 2% | 4% | 32% |
| Column Total | 100% | 100% | 100% |
r = -.38, Chi Square (6) = 2047.4, p < .001
The Love Test data indicates that self reports of religiosity
varied as a function of sexuality standards. 81% of the people
who require friendship or casual acquaintance prior to the onset
of sex, rated themselves as not or somewhat religious, as compared
to 62% of people who require love prior to the onset of sex, and
31% of people who require engagement or marriage prior to the
onset of sex. Conversely, only 19% of the people who require
friendship or casual acquaintance prior to the onset of sex, rated
themselves as moderately or very religious, as compared to 28%
of people who require love prior to the onset of sex, and 69%
of people who require engagement or marriage prior to the onset
of sex.
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