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Are Risk‐Taking Persons Less Religious? Risk Preference, Religious Affiliation, and Religious Participation in Taiwan
Author(s) -
Liu Eric Y.
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
journal for the scientific study of religion
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.941
H-Index - 71
eISSN - 1468-5906
pISSN - 0021-8294
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-5906.2009.01499.x
Subject(s) - religiosity , preference , miller , general social survey , logistic regression , sociology , social psychology , psychology , demography , economics , medicine , ecology , biology , microeconomics
The “risk‐preference” thesis is a controversial topic in the sociology of religion. Thus far, cross‐cultural empirical research on risk preference and religiosity has been meager. This study attempts to replicate Miller's ( Miller, Alan S. 2000 . Going to hell in Asia: The relationship between risk and religion in a cross cultural setting. Review of Religious Research 42(1):5–18) study for Taiwanese society, using data from the 2007 Taiwan Social Change Survey (TSCS). Logistic regression results show that for the Taiwanese (1) risk preference has little estimated net effect on religious affiliation, but (2) the relationship between risk preference and frequency of religious participation is statistically significant.