Parental Influence and Adolescent Religiosity: A Study of Church Attendance and Attitude Toward Christianity Among Adolescents 11 to 12 and 15 to 16 Years Old

Young Children's Descriptions of God: influences of parents' and teachers' God concepts and religious denomination of schools

“…An important way in which parents are supposed to in uence their children's God concepts is for example by talking about or 'showing' their own God concepts. Among older children (from age 10 onwards, Tamminen, 1991) and adolescents (Acock & Bengston, 1978;Clark et al, 1988;Francis & Gibson, 1993), similarities between parents' and children's God concepts and religious beliefs, church attendance, attitudes to Christianity, religious experiences and religious practices have been found. We are not aware of research on relations between God concepts of parents and preschoolers.…”

Assessing peer and parental influence on the religious attitudes and attendance of young churchgoers: exploring the Australian National Church Life Survey

“…The second weakness concerns the lack of information about the frequency of church attendance and consequently the impossibility of comparing the predictors of individual differences in attitude with the predictors of individual differences in practice. The importance of comparing the predictors of the attitudinal and the behavioural dimensions of religiosity among young people was well documented by Francis and Gibson (1993) who noted that their: findings also demonstrated that parents exerted a much clearer and more direct influence over their children's public and more overt religious practice than over their private and more covert religious attitude. (Francis & Gibson, 1993, p. Francis (1978a), allows this study conducted among young churchgoers in Australia to be contextualized within a long-standing and welldocumented body of research concerned with establishing the correlates, consequences and antecedents of individual differences in the affective dimension of religion during childhood, adolescence and adulthood.…”

“…Two hypotheses are being tested. First, following Francis and Gibson (1993), it is hypothesised that parental influence will be stronger on young people's behaviour than on their attitudes. Second, following Francis and Craig (2006), it is hypothesised that peer influence will be stronger than parental influence on young people's attitudes.…”

Shaping attitude toward Christianity among year seven pupils: the influence of sex, church, home and primary school

“…Multivariate models have shown the additional predictive power of both maternal and paternal church attendance (after taking the young person's own level of church attendance into account) in contributing to more positive attitudes toward religion among adolescents (Francis & Gibson, 1993). This relationship also remains complex with different effects flowing from mothers and from fathers.…”