A conservation scale was administered to 219 17-yr.-old English students to examine the relations between religious affiliations, church attendance, and social attitudes. The results provided support for the proposition that students who expressed a religious affiliation and attended church had more conservative attitudes than students without a religious affiliation and who did not attend church.
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