Study of the Relationship between Family Social Capital and Religious Participation with Teenager's Religious Identity

The present research¡ investigates the relation between family social capital and religious participations with teenagers'' religious identity. Based on Coleman''s theory about family social capital¡ Jenkins¡ Durkheim¡ Taleban''s theories about religious participation and Tajfel¡ Jenkins¡ Fini''s theories about religious identity we develop our theoretical framework of research. With the use of probability proportionate to size sampling¡ we choose 367 teenagers and 367 patents. To collect the data¡ we distribute a questionnaire among twelfth graders in the city of Qom. The bivariate analysis results indicate that there is a meaningful and direct relation between family social capital and religious participation with teenagers'' religious identity. In addition¡ the results of multivariate regression analysis demonstrate that the effects of social capital in a family and teenagers'' religious participation is significant and the teenagers'' religious participation variable is the most important factor in explaining teenagers'' religious identity.