More data analyses from the 1985 survey

Two scales were built using SPSS to look at the relationship between Attitudes to Religious Values and Attitudes to Social Values.

a. Full list of the variables used in the two attitudinal scales, Attitudes to Religious Values and Attitudes to Social Values are given.

Variables plotted - Attitudes to Religious Values and Attitudes to Social Values

b. A positive score indicated support for the values measured by the scale, whereas a negative score indicated lack of support for the values measured by the scale. A frequency distribution of the variables showed that the scale, Attitude to Religious Values, had a minimum of -15 and maximum of 26 with a mean of 5.618, standard deviation of 8.361 and mode of .000.

The scale, Attitudes to Social Values Scale, had a minimum of -13 and maximum of 20 with a mean of 4.384, standard deviation of 6.102 and mode of 8.000

Table b1

Table b2

c. The Attitudes to Religious Values was correlated with individual social values variables.

The Attitudes to Social Values scale was correlated with individual religious values variables.

Table c1

Table c2

d. The two scales Attitudes to Religious Values and Attitudes to Social Values were plotted together, controlling for the demographic variables as indicated on the individual graph, using SPSS Plot. The resulting graphs are shown are shown from Plot 1 to Plot 17.

Tables 1 to 8

Table 9 to 13

The majority of respondents fall into the positive quadrant; they have positive attitudes to both sets of values. A significant number of respondents fall into the quadrants, with either one set attitudes to the values negative, or both attitudes to both sets negative. From the table it can be seen that fifty-six per cent, 279, of respondents have a sum total that reflects "positive" attitudes to both sets of values. Eleven per cent, 53, of respondents have a positive score on the religious values scale and a negative score on the social values scale. Fourteen per cent, 68, of respondents have a positive score on the social values scale and a negative score on the religious values scale. Ten per cent, 51, of respondents have negative scores on both scales. It should be noted that certain respondents: 2% (10) have a positive score on the religious scale and zero on the social scale;3% (17) respondents have positive score on the social scale and a zero score on the religious scale;  2% (11) respondents have a negative score on the religious scale and zero score on the social scale; 2% (8) respondents have a negative score on the social scale and a zero score on the religious scale; 0.2% (1) respondent has zero scores for both scales. See Plot 1. Plots 2-17 can be read in a similar manner.