Degree Name
MA (Master of Arts)
Program
Psychology
Date of Award
12-2005
Committee Chair or Co-Chairs
Otto Zinser
Committee Members
Andrea D. Clements, Russell W. Brown
Abstract
To extend research on Baumrind’s parenting styles, a scenario study was conducted to determine if the gender of a stimulus child and the parenting style employed by stimulus parents would relate significantly to biblical interpretation style and preferred worship style. A 2x3 independent groups factorial design was employed for analysis in two different procedures. Respondents (152 undergraduate students) were provided with one of six scenarios, each of which varied by gender of stimulus child and by one of three parenting styles employed by the stimulus parent. Respondents were then directed to complete the Scriptural Literalism Scale (Hogge & Friedman, 1967) and the Worship Style Index, which provided measures of biblical interpretation style and worship style respectively. The results suggested that parenting styles relate to how one comes to interpret the Bible and worship style and that gender also relates to worship style. The authoritarian and authoritative parenting styles related more and the permissive parenting style the least to a literal approach to biblical interpretation and to a structured worship style.
Document Type
Thesis - unrestricted
Recommended Citation
Mabe, Geoffrey R., "Parenting Style and Its Relationship to Interpretation of the Bible and Worship Style in College Students." (2005). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. Paper 1096. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/1096
Copyright
Copyright by the authors.