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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Arranz Becker, Oliver
• Lois, Daniel
• Steinbach, Anja

Titel

Context Effects in Families: Couple alignment and intergenerational transmission using the example of religiosity

Ist Teil von

• Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie, 2014-09, Vol.66 (sup1), p.417-444

Erscheinungsjahr

2014

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Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The present contribution shows conceptual and methodological approaches for the study of social context effects within families. Family members mutually constitute the social context in which family behavior and personality development take place. Social influence in families becomes evident empirically in family members' significant similarity concerning a wide variety of characteristics. The present study focuses on intrafamily convergence with regard to religiousness. In an empirical illustration, both (a) horizontal intracouple alignment and (b) vertical intergenerational transmission processes are examined. Besides the finding that experiences during religious socialization in the parental home have a stronger impact than partner influences in adulthood, our analyses show that social context effects are more pronounced the stronger the cohesion of the respective interaction dyad is (e.g., according to measures of relationship quality). Adapted from the source document.