Religious differences. For the following analyses, we present data
from the subset of participants who were Catholic (n533), Jewish
(n522), or Protestant (n545). The ages of the three religious
groups (Catholic, Jewish, Protestant) did show some significant differences,
F (2, 97)55.55, MSE550.02, p5.005. By post-hoc Bonferroni
tests, Jews (M527.3, SD512.94) were older than Catholics
(M522.4, SD55.14; p5.005) and Protestants (M521.0,
SD52.35; p5.03). And there were some differences in education
levels between the religious cultural groups, F (2, 97)53.64,
MSE50.68, p5.03. The only significant difference was between
Jews (M53.6, SD51.05) and Protestants (M53.4, SD50.84;
p5.04). Catholics (M53.1, SD50.61) did not significantly differ
from either of the other groups. As in prior studies, there were significant
differences on intrinsic religiosity, F (2, 97)515.55,
MSE50.43, po.001. Jews (M53.4, SD50.76) scored lower than
Catholics (M53.7, SD50.71) and Protestants (M54.3, SD50.55;
p’s .001), who did not differ (p5.22). For the extrinsic religiosity
scale, there was also a significant effect of religion, F (2, 97)512.16,
MSE50.40, po.001. Protestants (M52.2, SD50.74) scored lower
than both Jews (M53.0, SD50.42; p .001) and Catholics
(M52.7, SD50.60), who did not differ (p5.34). For the two
item religious identity scale, there was a significant effect of religion,
F (2, 97)510.74, MSE51.47, po.001. Protestants (M54.7,
SD50.66) were higher than Catholics (M53.6, SD51.30;
p5.001) and Jews (M53.4, SD51.82; po.001) who did not differ
(p51.0).