# RELIGIOUS PARTICIPATION AMONG OLDER BLACKS AND WHITES

> **NIH NIH R01** · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · 1992 · $131,097

## Abstract

The proposed research aims to investigate patterns, measurement models,
and predictors of religious involvement among older black and white
Americans.  These aims will be accomplished through a research plan
organized around four interrelated objectives.  Specific objectives
include (1) describing patterns of religious involvement in older blacks
and whites and identifying predictors of religiosity, with a substantive
focus on racial, age, gender, and other social-structural differences;
(2) confirming multidimensional measurement models of religious
involvement in different groups of black and white respondents and
examining differences in model structure across racial, regional, and
denominational classifications; (3) analyzing patterns, models, and
predictors of religious involvement across three-generational families;
and, (4) performing panel analyses of religious involvement.  In
accomplishing each of these objectives, special attention will be given
to multidimensional measurement of religious involvement, higher-order
analyses which control for the effects of relevant exogenous variables,
and the confirmation of findings across racial, age, gender, and other
social and religious categories.

In conducting the proposed research, five datasets will be used.  These
include the National Survey of Black Americans, the Three Generation
Family Study, the National Survey of Black Americans Panel Study, the
Americans' Changing Lives Study, and the National Opinion Research
Center's General Social Survey.  Each of these surveys is based on large,
national probability samples, each contains sizeable numbers of black
respondents, and each dataset includes a variety of indicators of
organizational, nonorganizational, and subjective religious involvement.
In analyzing these data, a number of multivariate statistical procedures
will be used, including multiple regression, logistic regression,
analysis of variance and covariance, and several procedures based on
covariance-structure-modeling.  These include confirmatory factor
analysis, structural-equation-modeling, and factorial-invariance
analysis.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 3122090
- **Project number:** 1R01AG010135-01A1
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR
- **SAM.gov UEI:** GNJ7BBP73WE9
- **Principal Investigator:** ROBERT Joseph TAYLOR
- **Activity code:** R01 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 1992
- **Award amount:** $131,097
- **Award type:** 1
- **Project period:** 1992-09-25 → 1995-08-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/3122090

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 3122090, RELIGIOUS PARTICIPATION AMONG OLDER BLACKS AND WHITES (1R01AG010135-01A1). Retrieved via MORVS 2026-10-25 from https://api.morvs.ai/grant/nih/3122090. Licensed CC0.

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