How to Present Your Research

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Social Bonding/Integration and Alcohol Use in the Chinese Union of Seventh-day Adventists

The relationship between alcohol use and social bonding with the Seventh-day Adventist Church in China was examined. There was inverse relationship between alcohol and commitment to, involvement with and belief in the Adventist Church in China. These findings indicate that social bonding theory may be useful in non-western cultures. [email protected]

The Role that Parenting Style Plays in Adventist College Student Alcohol and Marijuana Use.

This research analyzed a survey distributed on an Adventist college campus that measured student alcohol and marijuana use in the last year and the role of parenting style. The results indicated authoritarian parental control of media usage and choice of friends during adolescence was related to higher rates of alcohol and marijuana use

Dissimilarities in Adventist Church Member Belief and Behavior across the Globe.

Do global Adventist church member beliefs and behaviors reflect this strictness across widely varying cultural ecosystems? Using a cultural ecosystem approach, we demonstrate that similarities and differences between Adventist church members in thirteen World Divisions of the General Conferences are influenced by global cultural pattern

Nurture and Church Member Well-Being in a Global Seventh-day Adventist Sample

We report a two-factor model of effective and failed nurture in the church—encouragement for wholeheartedness, efficacy in ministry, and belonging. Effective nurture explained a small amount of variance in well-being beyond controls including religious affiliation and behaviors, while failure to nurture explained substantial variance in religious stress and struggle

P-09 A Conceptual Framework for Analyzing the 2017-2018 Seventh-day Adventist Global Church Member Survey

We, along with others, developed the 2017-18 Global Church Member Survey currently being used by the Seventh-day Adventist Church to assess the quinquennial Church Strategic Plan. We included items for comparison to previous surveys, along with items to measure performance indicators from the Strategic Plan. However, our unique contributions were grounded in a novel theoretical framework based on Biblical principles and concepts in the social sciences. The Biblical contribution to the core of this framework focused on scriptural teaching on discipleship and God’s active role believer’s lives. The social science contribution to the core integrated theories of motivation (Deci & Ryan, 2008; Greenberg, Solomon, & Arndt, 2008; Koole, Greenberg, & Pyszczynski, 2006; Pyszczynski, Greenberg, & Goldenberg, 2003; Ryan & Deci, 2000) and hope (Bernardo, 2010; Snyder, 2002) from psychology, faith development (Dudley, 1994; Ji, 2004) from religious studies, social bonding (Hirschi, 1969; Yang et al., 2017) from sociology, and social capital (Häuberer, 2011; Putnam, 2003) from economics and development. We recognized several themes that repeated across the core. First, two motivational engines—on-going social relationships and hope for the future—drive beliefs and actions, both generally, and for believers particularly. Second, believers’ relationships and hopes involve both other human beings and God. Finally, differences in the availability (Gagné, 2003) of relationships and hope result in religious motivations ranging (Bailey & Timoti, 2015; Ryan, Rigby, & King, 1993) from wholeheartedness through perceived imposition to amotivation (lacking motivation). In our presentation, we will provide a description of the theoretical framework, review the research literature justifying the framework, and illustrate its utility through examples that demonstrate that model components measured by well-being, active church involvement, commitment to social justice, family bonding, and a strong personal devotional life positively relate to future commitment to the church and practicing an Adventist health life style