How Does Race Moderate the Effect of Religion Dimensions on Attitudes toward the Death Penalty?
Abstract
:1. Introduction
1.1. Race and Capital Punishment
1.2. Race, Religion, and Capital Punishment
1.3. Dimensions of Religion
2. Methods & Materials
2.1. Participants
2.2. Measures
2.3. Procedure
3. Results
4. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Variable | Range | Mean | S.D. |
---|---|---|---|
Dependent Variable | |||
Support for the Death Penalty | 0–1 | 0.59 | 0.49 |
Religious Variables | |||
Religiosity | 2–20 | 8.56 | 4.18 |
Spirituality | 1–4 | 2.85 | 0.98 |
Heaven | 1–4 | 3.33 | 0.98 |
Hell Religious Denomination | 1–4 | 3.08 | 1.11 |
Mainline Protestant (Reference) | 0–1 | 0.49 | 0.50 |
Evangelical | |||
Black Protestant | |||
Catholic | 0–1 | 0.21 | 0.41 |
No Religion | 0–1 | 0.23 | 0.42 |
Other Religion Demographic Variables | 0–1 | 0.05 | 0.22 |
Female | 0–1 | 0.55 | 0.50 |
Liberal | 0–1 | 0.45 | 0.50 |
Education | 0–20 | 13.73 | 2.97 |
Race | |||
White | 0–1 | 0.72 | 0.45 |
Black | 0–1 | 16.37 | 0.37 |
Other Race | 0–1 | 0.11 | 0.32 |
Model 1 | Model 2 | |
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Variable | OR | OR |
Religious Variables | ||
Religiosity | 0.95 ** | 0.94 ** |
Religiosity × Black | 0.91 * | |
Spirituality | 0.78 ** | 0.78 ** |
Spirituality × Black | 0.73 * | |
Heaven | 1.05 | 1.05 |
Heaven × Black | 1.09 | |
Hell | 1.27 * | 1.27 * |
Hell × Black | 1.09 | |
Religious Tradition | ||
Evangelical | 0.73 * | 0.71 * |
Black Protestant | 0.51 | 0.53 |
Catholic | 0.41 ** | 0.40 ** |
Jew | 0.87 | 0.86 |
No Religion | 1.02 | 0.99 |
Other Religion | 0.86 | 0.83 |
Demographic Controls | ||
Gender-Female | 0.70 * | 0.70 * |
Liberal | 0.44 *** | 0.42 *** |
Education | 1.01 | 1.00 |
Race | ||
Black | 0.54 ** | 0.30 |
Other Race | 0.99 | 0.97 |
Constant | 4.17 ** | 4.31 ** |
N | 1054 | 1054 |
Log Likelihood | 654.58 | −653.94 |
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Sabriseilabi, S.; Williams, J.; Sadri, M. How Does Race Moderate the Effect of Religion Dimensions on Attitudes toward the Death Penalty? Societies 2022, 12, 67. https://doi.org/10.3390/soc12020067
Sabriseilabi S, Williams J, Sadri M. How Does Race Moderate the Effect of Religion Dimensions on Attitudes toward the Death Penalty? Societies. 2022; 12(2):67. https://doi.org/10.3390/soc12020067
Chicago/Turabian StyleSabriseilabi, Soheil, James Williams, and Mahmoud Sadri. 2022. "How Does Race Moderate the Effect of Religion Dimensions on Attitudes toward the Death Penalty?" Societies 12, no. 2: 67. https://doi.org/10.3390/soc12020067