Religiosity, Subjective Norms, and Educational Attitudes in the Choice of Religious Education by Israeli Parents (original) (raw)

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 1992

Abstract

This field study deals with considerations underlying parents' choices of religious vs. secular elementary public education for their children. The contributions of parental religiosity, religious educational attitudes, subjective norms, and a variety of sociodemographic characteristics were examined within the context of a structural model suggested by reasoned action theory and its critics. Questionnaires dealing with these variables were administered to 710 parents of children completing kindergarten and about to enter elementary school. As expected, choice of school sector was related primarily to level of parental religiosity. LISREL analyses revealed that the parental decision was also influenced by such school characteristics as educational level and geographical location, as well as by perceived social norms. The specific weight of the variable shifted as a function of parental educational level and ethnicity. Social implications are discussed regarding the potential for social cleavage and separatism between religious and nonreligious Israeli Jews.

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