Wirkungsnachweis aus der Literatur

Kurzfristig (< 1 Jahr)
Makro (Gesellschaft)
Sozial

signficiantly increased attandance of young people at churches employing paid children, youth or familiy workers

gesellschaftliche Partizipation

Table 3 presents the regression model designed to test the extent to which the presence of a paid children, youth, or family worker added to the number of weekly attenders who were ages 5 to 18 years, after controlling for variation in the number of adult attenders. In this model, the presence of a paid children, youth, or family worker was entered as a dummy variable (1¼ present, 0¼not present) as the second step (testing the increase in variance accounted for after taking adult attendance into account). These data show significantly more young people attending church that employed a paid children, youth, or family worker. The unstandardized regression coefficient indicates that on average the 259 churches that employed a paid children, youth, or family worker had seven more young people attending weekly compared with churches of comparable adult attendance that did not employ a paid children, youth, or family worker.

Beschreibung der Aktivität

activities of church-based youth work and their influence on church attendance
activities of church-based youth work and their influence on church attendance
Großbritannien
young people betweem the ages of 5 and 18 years
Gemeinschaft/ Gemeinden/ Kommunen
Gemeinschaft/ Gemeinden/ Kommunen

Evaluierung der Aktivität

The Youthscape Centre for Research and One Hope commissioned Christian Research to survey 2054 churches across England, Scotland, and Wales in the autumn season of 2015. […] To model a normal distribution of church size within this group, the long tail of churches reporting adult attendances between 251 and 1000 were excluded (8% of the total number of churches) and so were the churches reporting adult attendance less than 19 (9% of the total number of churches). This subset of data included 786 churches with congregation size ranging from 20 to 250 people. [...] The present study undertook secondary analysis of these data to explore the specific research question concerning the effects of employing children, youth, and family workers. [...] A regression model tests the extent to which the presence of a paid children, youth, or family worker added additional predictive power, after controlling for variation in the adult church attendance, to the total attendance of young people between age 5 and 18 years.
The analysis drew on the following variables collected in the survey: the total adult weekly church attendance, the total weekly church attendance of young people between the ages of 5 and 18 years, and whether the church had a paid children, youth, or family worker (irrespective of the number of hours worked).
2054 churches across England, Scottland and Wales
autum season of 2015