Concurrent Sessions 2 - (NBCC CE Credit: #1 hr and Conference Attendance Credit: #1 hr)

120-01: Family Home Evening: Challenges and Benefits
Tommy M. Phillips, Loren Marks, Ellie Kimball, Mary A. Page, Brandan E. Wheeler, Michael Goodman, Trevor Hatch, Alice Long, Jennifer Smith, Sterling Wall  

One hundred thirty-seven married members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints with children participated in a study of Family Home Evening and its relation to family well-being. Previously reported results suggested that regular family-level rituals and sacred practices benefit families, marriages, and parent-child relationships. The current presentation focuses on the qualitative results from the study, describing challenges to, and the value of, FHE as reported by participants. The most commonly reported challenges to holding Family Home Evening had to do with time-related and child-related factors. The leading benefits reported revolved around family and spiritual growth and development. Implications for the full universe of families are discussed.

Objectives
-- To describe external and internal challenges to holding Family Home Evening.
-- To describe the value or benefits of regular observance of Family Home Evening.
-- To demonstrate how findings regarding the challenges and benefits of Family Home Evening are generalizable to the full universe of families.

Subject Codes: spirituality, family relations, communication
Population Codes: Latter Day Saints (Mormon)
Method and Approach Codes: qualitative methodology

120-02: LGBTQ Adolescent Suicidality: Religious Salience and Family Flexibility
Michael Goodman, Justin Dyer, Mikel Cressman, Anjelica Jerez, Kelsey Johnson, Emily Purtschert, Joseph Sheen

Summary
Data from ninety-three religious minority adolescents who are part of a 10 year longitudinal study of over 1200 adolescents was gathered and analyzed to better understand the relationship between religious salience, family dynamics and suicidality. This study found religious salience to be a protective factors for adolescent sexual minority suicidality. Past studies have found mixed results regarding religiosity and suicidality with some finding religion to be protective and some finding it to be a risk factor. By examining the modifying impact of family functioning, this study found that though religion was generally protective, a non-flexible family situation actually reversed the impact higher religiosity had for sexual minority adolescents increasing the risk of suicidality.

Objectives
-- To review the current literature on the relationship between religiosity and sexual minority adolescent suicidality.
-- To explore how religious salience / religious socialization / religious behavior is related to sexual minority adolescent suicidality.
-- To examine the moderating role of family functioning on adolescent religiosity and suicidality for sexual minority adolescents

Subject Codes: suicide, spirituality, family functioning
Population Codes: adolescence, lgb+, religious /religiosity
Method and Approach Codes: regression: logistic (binary, ordinal, or multinomial), quantitative methodology, prevention

120-03: Multidimensional Typology of Religiosity in Three Generations
Woosang Hwang, Joonsik Yoon, Merril Silverstein, Maria Brown

Summary
We apply latent class analysis and multiple group latent class analysis to multigenerational data from the Longitudinal Study of Generation (N= 1,726) to examine (1) what religiosity profiles exist in three generations (saline generation, baby-boomer, and generation X), and (2) how the patterns of religiosity profiles are the same or different across three generations. Results of latent class analysis show that four religiosity subgroups are identified in three generations: strongly religious, weakly religious, high religious low ideology, and low religious high ideology. In addition, results of multigroup latent class analysis show that four religiosity subgroups are structurally same across three generation. Our findings complement previous studies that religiosity is a multidimensional construct, and religiosity class memberships are invariant across three generations.

Objectives
-- To identify unobserved subgroups of religiosity in three generations (saline generation, baby-boomer, and generation X)
-- To compare patterns of religiosity subgroups across three generations (saline generation, baby-boomer, and generation X)
-- To demonstrate "spiritual but not religious" and "religious but not spiritual" religiosity subgroups in three generations (saline generation, baby-boomer, and generation X)

Subject Codes: spirituality, aging, gerontology
Population Codes: intergenerational, religious/religiosity, nationally-representative
Method and Approach Codes: latent variable modeling, secondary data analysis, quantitative methodology

120-04: Family Pastors as Social Problems Workers
Kimberly Brackett, David Feltmate

Summary
Every day across the United States churches advertise themselves as "family friendly," which leads people to treat pastors as social problems workers during times of crisis. Scholars of religion and family, however, have largely ignored the role of clergy in shaping our understanding of family problems and the role that pastors and churches play in resolving family issues. Based on our interviews with over thirty clergy in a Southern city; we will explain how pastors come to their ideologies about family, what they perceive as the issues facing families today, how they deal with family problems, and what professionals in other areas of family relations can do to understand the foundations pastors lay when helping clients.

Objectives
-- To explore the role that family pastors play in managing family crises and transitions
-- To describe the ways in which family pastors serve as front line resources for struggling families
-- To share the pastors' descriptions of how they help to build strong families in their congregations

Subject Codes: spirituality, communities, family functioning
Population Codes: Protestant, non-clinical practitioners, diverse but not representative
Method and Approach Codes: qualitative methodology, grounded theory, research, general

120-05: "You're Not Alone": Churches, Mosques, and Synagogues as Intergenerational Communities of Belonging For Families
Rachel Chamberlain, Gene Roehlkepartain

Summary
This qualitative study examined how parents and young people experience relationships in Christian, Jewish, and Muslim faith communities, and which aspects of these relationships positively influenced well-being, sense of identity, and faith formation. Thirteen congregations and communities participated in the study. Participants were asked to share about the relationships they experience in faith-based contexts, including the outcomes they experience as a result of these relationships. Findings from the focus groups suggest that a network of support is experienced among families in faith communities. Families report that this support is intergenerational, shared among families, and leads to relational and positive well-being outcomes for parents and young people.

Objectives
-- To examine how parenting adults and young people experience relationships in Christian, Muslim, and Jewish faith communities.
-- To explore which aspects of these relationships positively influenced well-being, sense of identity, and faith formation.
-- Understanding how intergenerational relationships and relationships with other families contribute to the support of families and the nurturing of faith or spirituality.

Subject Codes: relationships, communities, spirituality
Population Codes: diverse but not representative, religious/religiosity, U.S.
Method and Approach Codes: qualitative methodology, grounded theory, thematic analysis

Facilitator: Julie Zaloudek