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Christian Religiosity, Self-Control and Social Conformity
- Social Forces
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Volume 84, Number 3, March 2006
- pp. 1605-1623
- 10.1353/sof.2006.0075
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Survey data from a southwestern metropolitan area are used to analyze whether the ability of personal Christian religiosity to predict social conformity is spuriously due to self-control. Results indicate that both personal religiosity and self-control display statistically significant, independent negative net relationships with many forms of projected misbehavior. And interaction between self-control and religiosity in predicting deviance appears to be limited. Thus, self-control does not seem to account for the effects of religiosity, leaving the issue of how and why religiosity leads to conformity unresolved.