Sustaining church attendance and a positive attitude toward Christianity among students at Church of England voluntary primary schools: effects of parental church attendance and the perceived Christian character of the school
Francis, L.J., Henchley, F. and McKenna, U. (2024) Sustaining church attendance and a positive attitude toward Christianity among students at Church of England voluntary primary schools: effects of parental church attendance and the perceived Christian character of the school. British Journal of Religious Education. ISSN 0141-6200
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Abstract
This study employs data provided by 531 students attending year 3, 4, 5 and 6 classes within Church of England voluntary primary schools to examine the effect of perception of the Christian character of the school and the effect of parental church attendance on sustaining church attendance and a positive attitude toward Christianity among students, after taking into account the effects of sex and age. The data demonstrated first that the main predictors of student church attendance were parental attendance (positive) and age (negative), with no additional effect for perception of the Christian ethos of the school. Second, the data demonstrated that the main predictors of a positive attitude toward Christianity were personal church attendance (positive), perception of the Christian ethos of the school (positive) and age (negative). These findings suggest that perception of the Christian ethos of the school helps to sustain a positive attitude toward Christianity, while other factors (mothers and fathers not attending church) may inhibit this positive attitude toward Christianity from translating into more frequent church attendance among students.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | Published by Taylor & Francis in 2024. This is an author accepted manuscript of a published open access article available at https://doi.org/10.1080/01416200.2024.2442610. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
| Keywords: | Faith transmission parental influence school influence church schools |
| Depositing User: | Ursula Mckenna |
| Date Deposited: | 09 Jan 2025 11:48 |
| Last Modified: | 09 Jan 2025 11:48 |
| URI: | https://bgro.repository.guildhe.ac.uk/id/eprint/1194 |
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