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The Impact of Civic and Religious Social Capital on the Antisocial Attitudes of the Youth: A Multi-Level Cross-National Study
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Abstract The main goal of this paper is to investigate whether some dimensions of civic and religious social capital are connected to antisocial attitudes of the youth. Based on the social capital theory and previous research, the author assumed that membership of voluntary associations as a dimension of civ... view more
The main goal of this paper is to investigate whether some dimensions of civic and religious social capital are connected to antisocial attitudes of the youth. Based on the social capital theory and previous research, the author assumed that membership of voluntary associations as a dimension of civic social capital and attendance at religious services as a dimension of religious social capital, will be negatively correlated with antisocial attitudes of the youth. The integrated dataset of the last European Values Study and the World Values Survey waves were used as the sources of the research data. The dataset was comprised of 11,411 respondents who were younger than 25 years old from 79 countries. As hypothesized, at the individual level, attendance at religious services was negatively correlated with antisocial attitudes, whereas membership of voluntary associations was positively correlated with antisocial attitudes. At the country level, none of the hypothesized correlations were confirmed. A cross-level interaction between GDP and associational membership was found. The author explains the findings by evoking the special characteristics of religious social capital and its strength in building moral obligations and by suggesting possible differences in incentives for joining voluntary associations in the countries with different levels of economic wealth.... view less
Keywords
EVS; social capital; religiousness; religion; adolescent; attitude; deviant behavior; volunteerism
Classification
Social Psychology
Free Keywords
Joint EVS/WVS 2017-2022 Dataset (Joint EVS/WVS) (ZA7505 v1.1.0); antisocial attitudes; multilevel study
Document language
English
Publication Year
2021
Page/Pages
p. 1-11
Journal
Societies, 11 (2021) 3
DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/soc11030110
ISSN
2075-4698
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed