Religiosity Decline in Europe: Age, Generation, and the Mediating Role of Shifting Human Values

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Maciej Koscielniak
Agnieszka Bojanowska
Agata Gasiorowska
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2022-09-23
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Journal of Religion and Health
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2
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63
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1091–1116
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0022-4197
1573-6571
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2024-05-11
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Despite the fact that age is associated with higher religiosity, the aging European population has experienced a noticeable religiosity decline over recent decades. This study aimed to explain this paradox and to link it to an intergenerational shift in the pattern of values (as conceptualized by Shalom Schwartz). We conducted extended mediation analyses on the relationships between generational afliation and the level of personal religiosity via human values in two studies (European Social Survey round 7, N=29,775; and European Social Survey rounds 1–9, N=224,314). Our results confrm a pronounced trend of religiosity decline and explain this process by changes in personal values. In particular, Europe’s generational increase in openness to change values explains religiosity decline above and beyond the efect of people’s developmental age. We conclude that the perspective of human values provides a signifcant rationale for further research on religiosity, in relation to both past and future generations of Europeans.
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Religiosity
Human values
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