Amy Adamczyk
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 176307 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Amy Adamczyk |
| NOMBRES | Amy |
| APELLIDO | Adamczyk |
| FIRMA | ADAMCZYK A |
| AFILIACIONES | City University of New York |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0152-4503 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 61 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 842 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 61 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2002 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 15 |
How Country Context Shapes Personal Opinions About Abortion
Amy Adamczyk on variation in global abortion attitudes
Investigating the factors associated with induced abortion in six nations from the global south
Women across nations do not face the same barriers in accessing abortion, and do not have the same drivers in obtaining one. Country-specific policies need to developed
Neutralization and Violence in Gaza
The October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel and the subsequent military response sparked global controversy, deeply affecting young American and Israeli Jews. Drawing on 20 interviews with Jewish college students from both countries, this study explores how they interpret Israel’s actions through the lens of neutralization theory. Although most participants used traditional neutralization techniques to justify or rationalize Israel’s military eng…
Understanding violence in juvenile correctional facilities
Education and Religion in Shaping Support for Same-Sex Relations
Across the world, attitudes about same-sex relationships have become rapidly more supportive. While education is typically viewed as a liberalizing force, religious beliefs are often seen as restricting more tolerant perspectives and contributing to more conservative attitudes in general. Focusing on the United States, this study examines the roles of religion and education, as individual and group properties, for understanding disapproval of sam…
Dimensions and clusters of abortion legal attitudes
The literature on abortion attitudes displays a clear dualism. Cross-national studies conceptualize these attitudes as unidimensional (higher vs lower tolerance). But country case-studies indicate that attitudes are more complicated than what a continuous (higher/lower) or categorical (pro-choice vs pro-life) differentiation may suggest. Cross-national studies thus likely understate the complexity of abortion views. Utilizing a unique cross-natio…
Synthesizing the Global English-Language Abortion Narrative
Abortion is one of the most politically divisive topics currently being discussed in the media. No study has yet attempted to make cross-national comparisons assessing the nuances associated with various views on abortion in the English public press. Using an original hand-coded sample of over 800 English-language newspaper articles from 41 countries that mentioned abortion, we examine how country-level influences and newspaper characteristics sh…
Analysis of the relationship between religion, abortion, and assisted reproductive technology
God, Grades, and Graduation
The Political Ramifications of Judicial Institutions
In the American system of government, courts are designed to operate within the legal sphere, with limited political interference. Is it possible, though, that a behavior that is at the heart of the political process can be influenced directly by a judicial decision? Focusing on voter registration big data for the universe of voters in North Carolina around the time of Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, the authors assess the roles of …
Assessing Variation and Change in Newspaper Portrayals of Muslims
Since Donald Trump’s political campaign, Americans have appeared increasingly divided over public opinion issues and U.S. policies with the media seemingly reflecting these divisions. One of Trump’s early initiatives was the “Muslim ban,” which restricted visitors from seven Muslim‐majority countries. Focusing on the portrayal of Muslims in over 900 hand‐coded articles, our study uses multilevel modeling techniques to examine how newspapers chang…
Unpacking the Influence of Islamic Religious Culture and Individual Religious Affiliation on Testing HIV-positive
The distribution of HIV cases varies cross-nationally. We separate the influences of Islam at the macro- and micro-levels to understand the role of religion in shaping the spread of HIV. Drawing on biomarker data from the Demographic and Health Surveys, we construct a multilevel database (Individual N = 568,476; Country N = 30). We examine a series of national- and individual-level predictors that may mediate the relationship between Islam and te…
Using Internet-Derived Data to Measure Religion
Internet and social media data provide new sources of information for examining social issues, but their potential for scholars interested in religion remains unclear. Focusing on cross-national religion data, we test the validity of measures drawn from Google and Twitter against well-known existing data. We find that Google Trend (GT) searches for the dominant religions' major holidays, along with 'Buddhism,' can be validated against traditional…
Religion as a Micro and Macro Property
In many countries, abortion is the most contested issue being publicly discussed, in part, because it has important implications for gender equality, health, family formation, politics, and views about morality. Personal religious beliefs are often seen as having an important role in shaping disapproving attitudes. However, little attention has been given to the country religious context for understanding public opinion about abortion. Drawing on…
When and How Does Anti-Semitism Occur? the Different Trigger Mechanisms Associated with Different Types of Criminal and Non-Criminal Hate Incidents
We used data from an Australian community register to build a database containing 673 incidents, including both criminal and non-criminal anti-Semitic acts that occurred between October 2013 and September 2017. We conducted bivariate and multivariate analyses to explore the differences in the types of incidents associated with different trigger events. Using time series methods, we found a significant increase in criminal (but not in non-criminal…
Assessing the Benefits of College Internships at a Hispanic Serving Institution
Few studies have investigated the usefulness of internships at Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSI). Focusing on a 4-year public university (HSI), this study examined differences between the internship and the non-internship students, and changes across the semester for development. A structured internship appears to have some value; including increased interaction with faculty outside the classroom, confidence in verbally expressing ideas, and cl…
Online or in Person? Examining College Decisions to Reopen during the Covid-19 Pandemic in Fall 2020
When coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) became a major impediment to face-to-face college instruction in spring 2020, most teaching went online. Over the summer, colleges had to make difficult decisions about whether to return to in-person instruction. Although opening campuses could pose a major health risk, keeping instruction online could dissuade students from enrolling. Taking an ecological approach, the authors use mixed modeling technique…
Shifting Religious Influences on Attitudes Towards Same-Sex Behavior and Civil Liberties
Americans' acceptance of same-sex sexual relations and their willingness to restrict the civil liberties of sexual minorities vary substantially across both time and place even as overall trends have been towards more liberalizing stances. Yet few quantitative studies have explored both the individual and contextual religious factors shaping Americans' views and none have applied such an analysis to examining attitudes over time. Using hierarchic…
Understanding the role of religion in shaping cross-national and domestic attitudes and interest in abortion, homosexuality, and pornography using traditional and Google search data
Examining Public Opinion about Abortion
Although abortion became legal four decades ago, Americans remain staunchly divided over its acceptability. While researchers have been interested in the factors shaping abortion attitudes, there are almost no reviews of this work. We examine the factors shaping Americans’ abortion attitudes and assess the state of published peer‐reviewed articles in this area over the last 15 years. Using a mixed‐methods systematic review, we analyze and critiqu…
From Tolerance to Equality
Using Google and Twitter to Measure, Validate and Understand Views about Religion across Africa
Religion and Support for Political Violence among Christians and Muslims in Africa
Researchers have found consistently that religion reduces criminal behavior. Yet rising levels of political violence are frequently attributed to a new wave of religious terrorism. Our study seeks to reconcile this apparent discrepancy by studying the attitudes of people living in 34 African nations. Using data from the Afrobarometer survey and mixed modeling, we examine the influence of individual and collective religiosity for shaping civic eng…
Examining Public Opinion About LGBTQ-Related Issues in the United States and Across Multiple Nations
Over the last three decades, many countries across the world, including the United States, have experienced major increases in support for LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer) individuals and related issues. In partial relation to these changes, multiple studies have examined the factors shaping public opinion. In this review, we focus on four major areas of research on public opinion in this field of study. First, we assess the…
How and why have attitudes about cannabis legalization changed so much
Shaping attitudes about homosexuality
Cross-National Moral Beliefs
International surveys have documented wide variation in religious beliefs and practices across nations, but does this variation in the national religious context make a difference? Building on existing theory we explain why religion should have both micro and macro-level effects on morality not sanctioned by the state and why the effects of religion differ from other forms of culture. Using two international surveys and Hierarchical Linear Modeli…
Examining Public Opinion About LGBTQ-Related Issues in the United States and Across Multiple Nations
Over the last three decades, many countries across the world, including the United States, have experienced major increases in support for LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer) individuals and related issues. In partial relation to these changes, multiple studies have examined the factors shaping public opinion. In this review, we focus on four major areas of research on public opinion in this field of study. First, we assess the…
It Takes Two
Prior research argues that religious homophily in social networks is a product of overlapping interests and activities unintentionally leading to relationships or the intentional seeking of relationships with people of similar religious beliefs. This article advances research on religious homophily by including the role that exclusive theological beliefs play in explaining religious homophily among friends. We lay out three propositions for indiv…
Religion and Sexual Behaviors
Social scientists have long been interested in how cultural and structural characteristics shape individuals' actions. We investigate this relationship by examining how macro- and micro-level religious effects shape individuals' reports of premarital and extramarital sex. We look at how identifying with one of the major world religions-Islam, Hinduism, Christianity, Buddhism, or Judaism-and living in a nation with a Muslim culture shape the likel…
Friends' religiosity and first sex
Examining Public Opinion about Abortion
Although abortion became legal four decades ago, Americans remain staunchly divided over its acceptability. While researchers have been interested in the factors shaping abortion attitudes, there are almost no reviews of this work. We examine the factors shaping Americans’ abortion attitudes and assess the state of published peer‐reviewed articles in this area over the last 15 years. Using a mixed‐methods systematic review, we analyze and critiqu…
Explaining attitudes about homosexuality in Confucian and non-Confucian nations
High-cost Religion, Religious Switching, and Health
Previous research has devoted significant attention to understanding the link between health and personal religious beliefs and practices, typically finding that more religious people tend to have better health. However, almost no attention has been given to how switching religious groups or leaving religion altogether is related to self-reported health. Due to selection and causation mechanisms, switching from high-cost groups that are theologic…
Changing Attitudes Toward Homosexuality in Taiwan, 1995-2012
Most of what we know about attitudes toward homosexuality comes from research focused on Europe and the Americas. Much less is known about attitudinal change in East Asia, even though some nations have begun to propose liberal laws and policies regarding homosexuality. Focusing on Taiwan, a more liberal and economically developed society, this study examines key characteristics associated with changes in attitudes about homosexuality. Data from t…
Understanding Americans' abortion attitudes
Place matters
Socialization and Selection in the Link between Friends' Religiosity and the Transition to Sexual Intercourse
Although much research has examined how friends influence teens' sexual behaviors, little attention has been given to the association between friends' religiosity and coital debut. This study looks at the processes that could produce this association, examining whether friends' religiosity influences the transition to sexual intercourse and whether teens sort into friendship groups on the basis of consistency between their virginity status and th…
The effects of religious contextual norms, structural constraints, and personal religiosity on abortion decisions
Understanding the Effects of Personal and School Religiosity on the Decision to Abort a Premarital Pregnancy
Although much research has examined the relationship between religion and abortion attitudes, few studies have examined whether religion influences abortion behavior. This study looks at whether individual and school religiosity influence reported abortion behavior among women who become pregnant while unmarried. Hierarchical Logistic Models are implemented to analyze two waves of data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health. Fi…
On Thanksgiving and Collective Memory
Relying on the approach by Maurice Halbwachs who argued that collective memory is based on contemporary interests and concerns, this article shows how Thanksgiving has changed over time in accordance with the ideas of the day. Aspects of the analysis support Barry Schwartz's theory that commemoration reflects the historical past. Similar to the pilgrims' celebration, many people commemorate Thanksgiving by, for example, feasting and praying. But …
Fetal Positions
Objective. This study illustrates the ways religiosity and denominational affiliation influence the probability that a young woman will have an abortion. Methods. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health), measures of sexual behavior, out‐of‐wedlock pregnancy, and out‐of‐wedlock pregnancy resolution are regressed on religiosity and denominational affiliation. Results. Religiosity indirectly reduces the like…
How and why have attitudes about cannabis legalization changed so much
Online or in Person? Examining College Decisions to Reopen during the Covid-19 Pandemic in Fall 2020
When coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) became a major impediment to face-to-face college instruction in spring 2020, most teaching went online. Over the summer, colleges had to make difficult decisions about whether to return to in-person instruction. Although opening campuses could pose a major health risk, keeping instruction online could dissuade students from enrolling. Taking an ecological approach, the authors use mixed modeling technique…
Religion as a Micro and Macro Property
In many countries, abortion is the most contested issue being publicly discussed, in part, because it has important implications for gender equality, health, family formation, politics, and views about morality. Personal religious beliefs are often seen as having an important role in shaping disapproving attitudes. However, little attention has been given to the country religious context for understanding public opinion about abortion. Drawing on…
When and How Does Anti-Semitism Occur? the Different Trigger Mechanisms Associated with Different Types of Criminal and Non-Criminal Hate Incidents
We used data from an Australian community register to build a database containing 673 incidents, including both criminal and non-criminal anti-Semitic acts that occurred between October 2013 and September 2017. We conducted bivariate and multivariate analyses to explore the differences in the types of incidents associated with different trigger events. Using time series methods, we found a significant increase in criminal (but not in non-criminal…
Shifting Religious Influences on Attitudes Towards Same-Sex Behavior and Civil Liberties
Americans' acceptance of same-sex sexual relations and their willingness to restrict the civil liberties of sexual minorities vary substantially across both time and place even as overall trends have been towards more liberalizing stances. Yet few quantitative studies have explored both the individual and contextual religious factors shaping Americans' views and none have applied such an analysis to examining attitudes over time. Using hierarchic…
Understanding the role of religion in shaping cross-national and domestic attitudes and interest in abortion, homosexuality, and pornography using traditional and Google search data
Investigating Differences in How the News Media Views Homosexuality Across Nations
While there is a wealth of information about the extent to which people across the world disapprove of homosexuality, we know a lot less about the lenses through which they view same‐sex relations. The aim of this study is to understand better how homosexuality is framed in the public press, and how religion and economic development may combine to shape this discourse. Through an analysis of almost 400 newspaper articles, this study compares how …
Understanding Delinquency with Friendship Group Religious Context
Objective While much research has examined the link between personal religious beliefs and practices and delinquency, little research attention has been given to the influence of friends’ religious beliefs for explaining teen delinquency. This study fills this gap in the literature by examining the role of individual and friends’ religious beliefs and born‐again identity for shaping delinquency. Methods Two waves of data from the National Longitu…
On Thanksgiving and Collective Memory
Relying on the approach by Maurice Halbwachs who argued that collective memory is based on contemporary interests and concerns, this article shows how Thanksgiving has changed over time in accordance with the ideas of the day. Aspects of the analysis support Barry Schwartz's theory that commemoration reflects the historical past. Similar to the pilgrims' celebration, many people commemorate Thanksgiving by, for example, feasting and praying. But …
Religious Regulation and the Courts
Amy Adamczyk, John Wybraniec, Roger Finke; Religious Regulation and the Courts: Documenting the Effects of Smith and RFRA, Journal of Church and State, Vol
Congregations in America
Friends' religiosity and first sex
Fetal Positions
Objective. This study illustrates the ways religiosity and denominational affiliation influence the probability that a young woman will have an abortion. Methods. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health), measures of sexual behavior, out‐of‐wedlock pregnancy, and out‐of‐wedlock pregnancy resolution are regressed on religiosity and denominational affiliation. Results. Religiosity indirectly reduces the like…
The Association of Religion Data Archives (Arda)
The Association of Religion Data Archives (ARDA) currently archives over 500 local, national, and international data files, and offers a wide range of research tools to build surveys, preview data online, develop customized maps and reports of United States church membership, and examine religion differences across nations and regions of the world. The ARDA also supports reference and teaching tools that draw on the rich data archive. This resear…
Cross-National Moral Beliefs
International surveys have documented wide variation in religious beliefs and practices across nations, but does this variation in the national religious context make a difference? Building on existing theory we explain why religion should have both micro and macro-level effects on morality not sanctioned by the state and why the effects of religion differ from other forms of culture. Using two international surveys and Hierarchical Linear Modeli…
The effects of religious contextual norms, structural constraints, and personal religiosity on abortion decisions
Racial/Ethnic Differences in the Provision of Health-related Programs among American Religious Congregations
Using national data from the Faith Communities Today 2000 survey, the current study builds upon Lincoln and Mamiya's (1990) argument of the civically active Black Church. Originally used to assess the relative activism of Black and White congregations, the current study suggests that Black congregations are more likely to provide health programs than are predominantly White, Hispanic and Asian congregations. The greater involvement of Black congr…
Understanding the Effects of Personal and School Religiosity on the Decision to Abort a Premarital Pregnancy
Although much research has examined the relationship between religion and abortion attitudes, few studies have examined whether religion influences abortion behavior. This study looks at whether individual and school religiosity influence reported abortion behavior among women who become pregnant while unmarried. Hierarchical Logistic Models are implemented to analyze two waves of data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health. Fi…
It Takes Two
Prior research argues that religious homophily in social networks is a product of overlapping interests and activities unintentionally leading to relationships or the intentional seeking of relationships with people of similar religious beliefs. This article advances research on religious homophily by including the role that exclusive theological beliefs play in explaining religious homophily among friends. We lay out three propositions for indiv…
Socialization and Selection in the Link between Friends' Religiosity and the Transition to Sexual Intercourse
Although much research has examined how friends influence teens' sexual behaviors, little attention has been given to the association between friends' religiosity and coital debut. This study looks at the processes that could produce this association, examining whether friends' religiosity influences the transition to sexual intercourse and whether teens sort into friendship groups on the basis of consistency between their virginity status and th…
Shaping attitudes about homosexuality
Survivalism and Public Opinion on Criminality
Explanations of variability in public opinion on crime have drawn disproportionately from the literature on specific symbolic orientations including religious fundamentalism and racial prejudice. In contrast, this article hypothesizes that public opinion is linked to the strength of a general cultural axis of nations: survivalism vs. self-expressionism. Data are from the fourth wave of the World Values Survey. Hierarchical modeling techniques are…
High-cost Religion, Religious Switching, and Health
Previous research has devoted significant attention to understanding the link between health and personal religious beliefs and practices, typically finding that more religious people tend to have better health. However, almost no attention has been given to how switching religious groups or leaving religion altogether is related to self-reported health. Due to selection and causation mechanisms, switching from high-cost groups that are theologic…
Education and risky sex in Africa
Meredith L. Dank
Understanding Delinquency with Friendship Group Religious Context
Objective While much research has examined the link between personal religious beliefs and practices and delinquency, little research attention has been given to the influence of friends’ religious beliefs for explaining teen delinquency. This study fills this gap in the literature by examining the role of individual and friends’ religious beliefs and born‐again identity for shaping delinquency. Methods Two waves of data from the National Longitu…
Religion and Sexual Behaviors
Social scientists have long been interested in how cultural and structural characteristics shape individuals' actions. We investigate this relationship by examining how macro- and micro-level religious effects shape individuals' reports of premarital and extramarital sex. We look at how identifying with one of the major world religions-Islam, Hinduism, Christianity, Buddhism, or Judaism-and living in a nation with a Muslim culture shape the likel…
The Effect of Religion-Supported Programs on Health-Related Behaviors in Adolescence
Much research has found a relationship between religion and teens' health related behaviors. The majority of this research focuses on personal religious beliefs and behaviors. But, many religious organizations also sponsor nonreligious activities. There is reason to think that nonreligious programs sponsored by religious organizations will be more likely than school and community-based extracurricular programs to be associated with healthier beha…
Investigating the Role of Religion-Supported Secular Programs for Explaining Initiation into First Sex
Research finds that religious youth, compared to less religious youth, are more likely to delay their sexual debut (sometimes until marriage). This study is one of the first to examine the influence of involvement in religion-supported secular activities for shaping initiation into vaginal sex. Does involvement in religion-sponsored secular programs produce any health-related benefits for youth? Using two waves of data from the National Study of …
Lost in Transition
In Lost in Transition, Smith et al. isolate and analyze the challenges that emerging adults are currently facing. Emerging adulthood refers to the period of development between the ages of 18 and 23 when teens have graduated from high school and are beginning their lives as adults. This is the third book that Smith et al. have written using data collected through the National Study of Youth and Religion (NSYR). Lost in Transition primarily relies…
Extracurricular activities and teens' alcohol use
Not Under My Roof
Investigating Differences in How the News Media Views Homosexuality Across Nations
While there is a wealth of information about the extent to which people across the world disapprove of homosexuality, we know a lot less about the lenses through which they view same‐sex relations. The aim of this study is to understand better how homosexuality is framed in the public press, and how religion and economic development may combine to shape this discourse. Through an analysis of almost 400 newspaper articles, this study compares how …
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