Individual differences and the relationship between education and religiosity in longitudinal versus cross-sectional studies.
Yoav GanzachPublished in: International journal of psychology : Journal international de psychologie (2022)
We show that the relationship between education and religiosity is positive in cross-sectional analyses and negative in longitudinal analyses. We explain this discrepancy by suggesting that the former relationship is due to the positive association of both education and religiosity with dispositional conformity, while the latter represents a causal effect of education on apostasy.