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JOURNAL OF PERSONALITY AND SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
Volume 89, Issue 1, Pages 78-89Publisher
AMER PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.89.1.78
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religion; development; growth mixture models; longitudinal
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The authors used growth mixture models to study religious development during adulthood (ages 27-80) in a sample of individuals who were identified during childhood as intellectually gifted. The authors identified 3 discrete trajectories of religious development: (a) 40% of participants belonged to a trajectory class characterized by increases in religiousness until midlife and declines in later adulthood; (b) 41% of participants belonged to a trajectory class characterized by very low religiousness in early adulthood and age-related decline; and (c) 19% of participants belonged to a trajectory class characterized by high religiousness in early adulthood and age-related increases. Gender, strength of religious upbringing, number of children, marrying, and agreeableness predicted membership in the trajectory classes. Results were largely consistent with the rational choice theory of religious involvement.
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