Time-Varying and Gender Differences in Religious Socialization and Associations With Muslim American Adolescents’ Religious Identity

Funding Sponsor

University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Fourth Author's Department

Psychology Department

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https://doi.org/10.1037/rel0000517

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Merve Balkaya-Ince, Charissa S.L. Cheah, Hatice Gürsoy, Mona Amer

Document Type

Research Article

Publication Title

Psychology of Religion and Spirituality

Publication Date

1-1-2024

doi

10.1037/rel0000517

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to examine time-varying and gender differences in the: (a) frequency of maternal religious socialization and (b) the associations between maternal religious socialization and Muslim American adolescents’ religious identity. Cross-sectional data were collected from 220 Muslim American adolescents (13–18 years, Mage = 16.8, 59.5% female) who were primarily from second-generation Asian and Arab/Middle Eastern backgrounds. Time-varying effect modeling (TVEM, Lanza et al., 2014) was employed using SAS. Whereas Muslim American girls perceived a linear declining trend in their mothers’ religious socialization across adolescence, boys’ reports suggested a quadratically increasing pattern with a peak around midadolescence. In addition, Muslim American adolescents’ perceptions of maternal religious socialization were linked to a stronger religious identity but only between 17–18 years for girls and 15.5–18.4 years for boys. Muslim American adolescents’ age and gender are important in shaping their maternal religious socialization experiences and the relations with their religious identity across adolescence. Theories and empirical research on religious socialization and religious identity should consider that the frequency and implications of socialization experiences may vary across time and gender.

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