Using data from the 2014 Baylor Religion Survey, we examine the relationship between various aspects of religion and parenting satisfaction. Results confirm prior research findings that personal religiosity is positively associated with parenting satisfaction. We also find that religious heterogamy among couples is associated with lower odds of being a satisfied parent. Furthermore, parents who view their parenting as holy or sacred have much higher odds of reporting being satisfied as parents, and the observed relationships between religiosity and parenting satisfaction at both the individual and couple levels are no longer statistically significant in models controlling for parenting sanctification. The religiously unaffiliated have higher odds than evangelical Protestants of having high parenting satisfaction, suggesting the possible presence of parenting pressures within religious communities with a strong emphasis on family life.
Objective
In this study, we explore how daily Internet and social media use are related to feeling addicted to technological devices and describe the sociodemographic indicators of device addiction for U.S. adults.
Methods
Using a nationally representative sample of U.S. adults, we estimate a series of logistic regression analyses predicting device addiction.
Results
We find that social media use, rather than Internet use alone, is a stronger indicator of device addiction. Women report more addiction than men, and employment and education are both associated with increased addiction. Results describe device addiction as a felt reality for U.S. adults of all ages, while also noting particular social and demographic class characteristics for which these dilemmas may be more acute.
Conclusion
“iAddiction” appears to be endemic to general conditions of postscarcity and concentrated in those with particularly high situations of ontological security. Directions for constructive theory building in the sociology of technology are elaborated.
Stereotypes are defined as the typically unfavorable or inaccurate perceptions that are attributed to an entire group or category of people. These cultural sources of prejudice and discrimination are based on racial, ethnic, religious, and other social differences in an attempt to explain entire groups of people based solely on selected information. Stereotypes have been studied as automatic and unconscious thoughts, but are learned over time in social contexts and perpetuated by the socialization process in various ways. Stereotypes can result in historical patterns of prejudice and discrimination in society, but have also been demonstrated to have individual impacts such as creating a self‐fulfilling prophecy and stereotype threat. Stereotype threat is a situational impact of stereotyping in which individuals are aware of the negative stereotypes that surround their particular social group and they feel anxiety that their actions might confirm the stereotype as true.
Smartphones have become a ubiquitous part of everyday life, and attachment to these devices is a felt reality for many Americans. This paper describes the link between smartphone attachment and the pursuit of meaning and purpose in life. Analyses reveal meaning-seeking as a positive correlate of smartphone attachment. However, while interaction effects suggest that meaning-seeking through heavy social media and Internet use decreases the odds of smartphone attachment, meaning-seeking is strongly related to attachment at lower levels of daily media use. Also, having a satisfying life purpose decreases the odds of smartphone attachment, though this protective effect is not as strong as meaning-seeking in the final models. We conclude that smartphone attachment, within a context of latent anomie, could be anomigenic, inadvertently exacerbating feelings of despair while simultaneously promising to resolve them. Findings provide a sociological link between smartphone attachment and the negative psychosocial outcomes described in the literature.
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