Religious Commitment, Religious Fundamentalism, and Attitudes Towards Reading Ellen White among Asian University Students
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Ellen White, religious fundamentalism, religious commitment
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The purpose of this study was to explain attitudes towards reading Ellen White using religious commitment, religious fundamentalism, gender, class level, and academic major as independent variables. A cross-sectional design that surveyed 225 students at a Seventh-day Adventist university was employed. The analysis included descriptive statistics and multiple regression. Results indicated that religious commitment and religious fundamentalism had strong relationships with attitudes towards reading Ellen White. In addition, gender, and study major were also significant explanatory variables. The model explained 43% of the variance of attitudes towards reading Ellen White. This implies that among young adults, religious commitment and fundamentalism are factors to consider when addressing attitudes towards reading the writings of Ellen White.
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Academic Reading Attitudes (ISARA). Journal of College Reading and Learning, 46(2), 113–138. doi.org/10.1080/10790195.2016.1141667
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Moore, S., & Lemons, R. (1982). Measuring reading attitudes: Three dimensions. Reading World, 22(1), 48–57. doi.org/10.1080/19388078209557678
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Schnabel, L., Hackett, C., & McClendon, D. (2018). Where men appear more religious than women: Turning a gender lens on religion in Israel. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 57(1), 80–94. doi.org/10.1111/jssr.12498
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Stroope, S., Franzen, A., & Uecker, J. (2015). Social context and college completion in the United States: The role of congregational biblical literalism. Sociological Perspectives, 58(1), 120–137. doi.org/10.1177/0731121414559522
Twenge, J., Sherman, R., Exline, J., & Grubbs, J. (2016). Declines in American adults’ religious participation and beliefs, 1972-2014. SAGE Open, 6(1). doi.org/10.1177/2158244016638133
Vansteelandt, I., Mol, S., Caelen, D., Landuyt, I., & Mommaerts, M. (2017). Attitude profiles explain differences in pre-service teachers’ reading behavior and competence beliefs. Learning and Individual Differences, 54, 109–115. doi.org/10.1016/j.lindif.2017.01.016
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White, A. (2000). Ellen White: Woman of vision. Hagerstown, MD: Review and Herald.
Wilkins-Laflamme, S. (2014). Toward religious polarization? Time effects on religious commitment in U.S., UK, and Canadian regions. Sociology of Religion, 75(2), 284–308. doi.org/10.1093/socrel/sru001
Worthington, E., Wade, N., Hight, T., Ripley, J., McCullough, M., Berry, J., … O’Conner, L. (2003). The Religious Commitment Inventory—10: Development, refinement, and validation of a brief scale for research and counseling. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 50(1), 84–96.