Original scientific paper
Religion and Family. Influence of Christian Identity on Perception of Relationships between Parents and Children
Krunoslav Nikodem
; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb
Abstract
The paper analyses the relation between Christian identity and the perception of the relationships between parents and children, as well as the characteristics of what is considered to be good upbringing within a family. The work is based on the results of an empirical research carried out for the project »Christian identity and quality of marital and family life« in May and June 2008, on the representative sample of 1200 adult Croatian citizens who either are or were married. Christian identity was constructed on the basis of the following questions: belief in the existence of God, i.e. acceptance of a certain concept of God (Christian or non-Christian); frequency of attendance at Sunday mass (institutionalized religious practice); religious self-identification (religiosity in a narrow sense), as well as on the basis of twenty items (questions about what it means to be a Christian). The main hypothesis is that the respondents who are religious (in a wider sense) are more inclined to emphasize the elements of religious upbringing as good upbringing of children within a family. On the other hand, those who consider themselves to be non-religious, or religious in the sense of an individualized religiosity, will be more inclined to emphasize the elements of children independence. The results of the analysis confirm this hypothesis.
Keywords
religion; Christianity; family; children; parents; religious upbringing
Hrčak ID:
59830
URI
Publication date:
16.8.2010.
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