Transmission of Religious and Social Values from Parents to Teenage Children

Using 254 mother-father-youth triads gathered from Catholic, Baptist, and Methodist churches, the authors looked at patterns of parent-child value transmission. Mean age of youth was 16.0. Parent-child correlations were mixed but often weak. Thirty-three family factors were tested for effect on valu...

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Published in:Journal of marriage and family 1982-08, Vol.44 (3), p.569-580
Main Authors: Hoge, Dean R., Petrillo, Gregory H., Smith, Ella I.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Baptists
Catholicism
Child/Children/Childhood
Children
Churches
Correlations
Fathers
Mothers
Parent/Parents/Parental
Parents
Religion/Religions/Religious
Social
Socialization
Sons
Teenage/Teenagers
Transmission
Value/Values/Valuation/ Valuations
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Summary:Using 254 mother-father-youth triads gathered from Catholic, Baptist, and Methodist churches, the authors looked at patterns of parent-child value transmission. Mean age of youth was 16.0. Parent-child correlations were mixed but often weak. Thirty-three family factors were tested for effect on value transmission; most had no effect, but several enhanced religious value transmission—younger age of parents, parental agreement about religion, and good parent-child relationships. Membership in one denomination or another predicted children's values more than did their parents' values, indicating that value socialization takes place in cultural subgroups more than in nuclear families. Implications are discussed for future research.
ISSN:0022-2445
1741-3737
DOI:10.2307/351580