A study of the relationship between Orthodox beliefs of twelfth-grade students in Southern Baptist churches and variables related to their degree of participation in church-based and home-based religious education

Problem. The problem of this study was to determine the relationship between Christian Orthodoxy Scale scores of twelfth-grade students in Southern Baptist churches and a specified set of predictor variables: degree of Sunday School participation, degree of worship participation, degree of youth group participation, degree of family spiritual interaction, and consistency of personal devotional time. In addition, it was the problem of this study to determine the difference in Christian Orthodoxy Scale scores between two groups of Southern Baptist twelfth-grade students: (1) those with high levels of formal and informal educational participation, and (2) those with a high level of formal educational participation and a low level of informal educational participation.; Procedures. The Christian Orthodoxy Scale was administered to a sample of twelfth-grade students who were members of Southern Baptist churches and who attended selected Centrifuge camp locations during the summer of 2001. With a sample size of 391, a multiple regression procedure was used to determine the relationship between the orthodoxy scores and five predictor variables. In addition, a t-test for independent samples was used to determine the difference between scores of students with high formal and informal educational participation and students with high formal and low informal educational participation.; Findings and conclusion. The regression procedure revealed three significant predictors: degree of Sunday School participation, degree of family interaction, and consistency of personal devotions (p = .05). In addition, orthodoxy scores of students with high formal and informal educational participation were significantly higher than those with high formal and low informal educational participation (p = .05). The findings indicated that orthodoxy in adolescents is related to both their participation in Sunday School and their degree of participation in home-based educational activities.