Religiosity and Premarital Sexual Permissiveness

A Methodological Note

Bibliographic Data

ID4264669
AuthorsHoward J Ruppel (Cornell University, corresponding author)
Year1969
Volume30
Issue3
Pages176
Publication date1969-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueSociological Analysis (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0038-0210 • E-ISSN: 2325-7873
PublisherOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/3710271
OpenAlexW2883961121
LanguageEN
Citations received8
References cited1

Data from a random sample of midwestern college students was used to test a variety of measures of religiosity as predictors of sexual permissiveness. Faulkner and Dejong's “5-D Scale of Religiosity” based upon Glock and Stark's proposed dimensions proved to be the best indicator of the dependent variable. Empirical support is thus provided for the five-dimensional conceptualization of religiosity. The data indicate that religiosity is causally related to sexual permissiveness, and the inverse relationship between religiosity and sexual permissiveness appears to be stronger for groups characterized by traditional value systems and those which have a minimum of normative conflict

Conceptualization · Developmental psychology · Normative · Permissiveness · Political science · Religiosity · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy · Psychology · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology · Social Psychology

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