Identity as a Determinant of the Overreporting of Church Attendance in Canada

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AUTOR(ES) P.S. Brenner
ANO 2012
TIPO Artigo
PERIÓDICO Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion
ISSN 0021-8294
E-ISSN 1468-5906
DOI 10.1111/j.1468-5906.2012.01640.x
CITAÇÕES 10
ADICIONADO EM 2025-08-18
MD5 45de7f0b926c48c28dceaa5e71cc4ad8

Resumo

Recent work has demonstrated that Canadians overreport church attendance at rates similar to respondents in the United States. Overreporting in the United States has been attributed to the importance of religious identity; causes of Canadian overreporting have not been examined. This article draws upon Stryker's identity theory to explain why Canadian survey respondents overreport church attendance. The 2005 Canadian General Social Survey contains observed measures of attendance from both a conventional survey question and a time diary, allowing a direct and rigorous test of the identity explanation. Findings suggest that rates of Canadian overreporting, at about 50 percent, rival rates of overreporting in the United States. Moreover, like overreporting in the United States, Canadian overreporting may be affected by an identity process during the survey interview. Finally, implications for measuring religiosity in both countries are discussed.

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