Francis, Leslie J., McKenna, Ursula and Sahin, Abdullah (2020) Religion and socio-economic human rights : an empirical enquiry among adolescents in England and Wales. In: Ziebertz, H. G., (ed.) International Empirical Studies on Religion and Socioeconomic Human Rights. Religion and Human Rights , 5 . Cham: Springer, pp. 169-191. ISBN 9783030309336

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Abstract

This study explores the association between attitudes toward socio-economic human rights and three dimensions of religion (religious practice, religiosity, and self-assigned religious affiliation), after taking into account personal factors (age and sex) and psychological factors (extraversion, neuroticism, and psychoticism) among a sample of 987 students between the ages of 14 and 18 years in England and Wales. Religious practice was assessed by two factors, personal prayer and worship attendance. Religiosity was assessed by three factors, thinking about religious issues, reconsidering religious issues, and belief in God. Self-assigned religious affiliation distinguished among four groups, Protestant Christians, Catholic Christians, Muslims, and religiously unaffiliated. The data demonstrated the importance of personal factors, with females and older students holding more positive attitudes toward socio-economic human rights, and the importance of psychological factors, with higher neuroticism scores and lower psychoticism scores being associated with more positive attitudes toward socio-economic human rights. Among the dimension of religion, religiosity provided stronger prediction of individual differences in attitudes toward socio-economic human rights than either religious practice or self-assigned religious affiliation. In particular, adolescents who often gave thought to religious issues held more positive attitudes toward socio-economic human rights.

Item Type:	Book Item
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BL Religion B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BV Practical Theology
Divisions:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Educational Development, Appraisal and Research (CEDAR) Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Education Studies (2013- )
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):	Human rights -- Religious aspects , Human rights, Religion and sociology, Theology -- Study and teaching
Series Name:	Religion and Human Rights
Publisher:	Springer
Place of Publication:	Cham
ISBN:	9783030309336
ISSN:	2510-4306
Book Title:	International Empirical Studies on Religion and Socioeconomic Human Rights
Editor:	Ziebertz, H. G.
Official Date:	7 March 2020
Dates:	Date Event 7 March 2020 Published
Volume:	5
Page Range:	pp. 169-191
DOI:	10.1007/978-3-030-30934-3_7
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Published
Access rights to Published version:	Restricted or Subscription Access
Copyright Holders:	© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Date of first compliant deposit:	16 September 2020
Date of first compliant Open Access:	7 March 2022

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