Wirkungsnachweis aus der Literatur
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
Evaluierung der Aktivität
Quantitative Fragebogenerhebung (schriftlich/offline), Sekundäranalyse von Daten, Dokumenten, audiovisuellen Materialien etc.
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
Großbritannien
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