Belief in an Afterlife: A National Survey

摘要: This article presents an exploratory analysis of factors affecting belief in afterlife. Data are taken from the 1978 subfile on National Opinion Research Center's General Social Survey. With life after death serving as dependent variable, a number variables introduced tabular analysis. Among found to be statistically significant sex, race, age, marital status, and several religious residential variables. Controlling frequency church attendance intensity, it is shown that Protestants have highest incidence death, followed closely by Catholics, with Jews exhibiting lowest level. A discriminant was run order select group independent were good predictors Race, religion, discriminating such belief.