Relations among education, religiosity and socioeconomic variables
- 주제(키워드) education , international study , religiosity , socioeconomic
- 주제(기타) Education & Educational Research
- 설명문(일반) [Rachmatullah, Arif] North Carolina State Univ, Coll Educ, Dept STEM Educ, Raleigh, NC USA; [Ha, Minsu] Kangwon Natl Univ, Coll Educ, Div Sci Educ, Chuncheon Si, South Korea; [Park, Jisun] Ewha Womans Univ, Coll Educ, Dept Elementary Educ, Seoul, South Korea
- 등재 SSCI, SCOPUS
- OA유형 gold, Green Submitted
- 발행기관 EDUCATION ASSOC SOUTH AFRICA
- 발행년도 2019
- URI http://www.dcollection.net/handler/ewha/000000160565
- 본문언어 영어
- Published As http://dx.doi.org/10.15700/saje.v39n1a1611
초록/요약
This study demonstrates the relations of the position of education in the correlation between religiosity, and socioeconomic variables by using national-level, and large survey data. We used data from the international survey of 68 countries, and used statistical methods to create the composite scores of every variable. Next, we used Pearson and partial correlations to determine the significance of the relations between the three variables and path analysis to investigate the directions. The correlation coefficient between academic and religiosity variables was a significant and negatively high correlation; furthermore, the partial correlation was strong and significant when the socioeconomic variable was controlled. The correlation between religiosity and socioeconomic variables was a significant and negatively high correlation, and the partial correlation was not significant when the academic variable was controlled for. The correlation between academic and socioeconomic variables was a significant and positively high correlation, and the partial correlation was significant when the religious variable was controlled for. The path analysis reveals that the direction is as follows: socioeconomic, education, and finally, religiosity. Based on our results and the reviewed literature, this paper discusses how these results contribute to the secularization theory and how education mediates religiosity and socioeconomic variable.
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