Correlations between attitude toward Christianity, prayer, and church attendance among 9- to 11-yr.-olds.
Data provided by 150 9- to 11-yr.-old primary school pupils in England showed scores on the Francis Scale of Attitude toward Christianity more highly correlated with (personal) prayer (r = .57) than with (public) church attendance (r = .23), providing support for the view that attitude scales access a deeper level of religiosity less contaminated by those contextual and social factors which may influence public church attendance more than personal prayer.
Robbins
Mandy
M
University of Wales, Bangor, UK.
Babington
Peter
P
Francis
Leslie J
LJ
D001290:Attitude; D002648:Child; D002835:Christianity; D004739:England; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010555:Personality Inventory / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011594:Psychometrics; D012067:Religion; D012069:Religion and Psychology; D015203:Reproducibility of Results