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| − | [[Emotional intelligence|Emotional/intrapersonal intelligence]] is important in terms of human performance in the intellectual realm. For example, the social scientists Andrea L. Duckworth and Martin Seligman found that higher degrees of [[self-control|self-discipline]] better predict higher academic grades than IQ scores do among adolescents.<ref>[http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~duckwort/images/PsychologicalScienceDec2005.pdf Self-Discipline Outdoes IQ in Predicting Academic Performance of Adolescents], Andrea L. Duckworth and Martin Seligman, Positive Psychology Center, University of Pennsylvania</ref> | + | [[Emotional intelligence|Emotional/intrapersonal intelligence]] is important in terms of human performance in the intellectual realm. For example, the social scientists Andrea L. Duckworth and Martin Seligman found that higher degrees of [[self-control|self-discipline]] better predict higher academic grades than IQ scores do among adolescents.<ref>[http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~duckwort/images/PsychologicalScienceDec2005.pdf Self-Discipline Outdoes IQ in Predicting Academic Performance of Adolescents], Andrea L. Duckworth and Martin Seligman, Positive Psychology Center, University of Pennsylvania</ref> See also: [[Atheism and intelligence]] |
[[Atheism|Atheists]] commonly have lower emotional intelligence and social intelligence as can be seen in the social science data, historical data and other data given in the articles given directly below: | [[Atheism|Atheists]] commonly have lower emotional intelligence and social intelligence as can be seen in the social science data, historical data and other data given in the articles given directly below: | ||
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Emotional/intrapersonal intelligence is important in terms of human performance in the intellectual realm. For example, the social scientists Andrea L. Duckworth and Martin Seligman found that higher degrees of self-discipline better predict higher academic grades than IQ scores do among adolescents.[1] See also: Atheism and intelligence
Atheists commonly have lower emotional intelligence and social intelligence as can be seen in the social science data, historical data and other data given in the articles given directly below:
Atheism and poor relationship with father/mother/parents
Parental involvement is positively correlated with student academic performance.[2]
In 2012, a Georgetown University study was published indicating that only about 30 percent of those who grow up in an atheist household remain atheists as adults.[3] Similarly, according to recent research by the Pew Research Forum on Religion and Public Life, in the United States, a majority of those surveyed who were raised in atheist or agnostic households, or where there was no specific religious attachment, later chose to join a religious faith.[4][5] See also: Atheism has a lower retention rate compared to other worldviews
The Cambridge Companion to Atheism which was edited by the atheist philosopher Michael Martin declared:
| “ | Continuity and discontinuity in any identity may be a function of interpersonal networks, especially involving intimate relations. Apostasy and conversion can both be seen as a rejection of parental identity and parental beliefs. It “might well be symptomatic of familial strain and dissociation... apostasy is to be viewed as a form of rebellion against parents” (Caplovitz and Sherrow, 1977:50).[6] | ” |
A troubled/non-existent relationship with a father can influence a person to become an atheist.[7] Dr. Paul Vitz wrote a book entitled Faith of the Fatherless in which he points out that after studying the lives of more than a dozen leading atheists he found that a large majority of them had a father who was present but weak, present but abusive, or absent.[8][9] Dr. Vitz also examined the lives of prominent theists who were contemporaneous to their atheist counterparts and from the same culture and in every instance these prominent theists had a good relationship with his father.[10] Dr. Vitz has also stated other common factors he observed in the leading atheists he profiled: they were all intelligent and arrogant.[11]
The book Atheist Persona: Causes and Consequences by John J. Pasquini, Th.D. indicates that many of the prominent atheists (and prominent practical atheists) who had dysfunctional/absent fathers that he lists in his book also had dysfunctional/absent mothers.[12] See also: Atheism and poor relationships with parents and Irreligion and domestic violence
Atheism and academia
See also: Religion and education
Stijn Ruiter, senior researcher at the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement, and Frank van Tubergen, a professor of sociology in Utrecht, analyzed 'religious participation' in 60 countries. Their research found no effect of education in terms of religiosity, but instead indicated that social/economic insecurity and the environment people grow up in have a significant impact.[13][14][15]
For more information, please see:
References
- ↑ Self-Discipline Outdoes IQ in Predicting Academic Performance of Adolescents, Andrea L. Duckworth and Martin Seligman, Positive Psychology Center, University of Pennsylvania
- ↑ Parent involvement and student academic performance: A multiple mediational analysis
- ↑ http://www.christianpost.com/news/study-atheists-have-lowest-retention-rate-compared-to-religious-groups-78029/ Study: Atheists Have Lowest 'Retention Rate' Compared to Religious Groups
- ↑ http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/defectors-to-faith-mark-a-growing-trend/story-e6frg7ko-1225710667095
- ↑ http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1204/religion-changes-affiliations-survey
- ↑ The Cambridge Companion to Atheism, edited by Michael Martin, page 302, published in 2006
- ↑ http://www.leaderu.com/truth/1truth12.html
- ↑ Vitz, Paul, The Psychology of Atheism, September 24, 1997 (lecture notes taken by an audience member).
- ↑ Anders, Kerby, Atheists and Their Fathers (Probe Ministries)
- ↑ http://www.columbia.edu/cu/augustine/arch/vitz.txt
- ↑ http://www.columbia.edu/cu/augustine/arch/vitz.txt
- ↑ Atheist Persona: Causes and Consequences by John J. Pasquini, 2014, University Press of America, page 3
- ↑ Insecurity not education determines church attendance
- ↑ Religious Attendance in Cross-National Perspective, British Religion in Numbers, Posted on February 21, 2010 by Clive Field
- ↑ Religious Attendance in Cross-national Perspective: A Multilevel Analysis of 60 Countries by Stijn Ruiter and Frank van Tubergen, American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 115, No. 3, pp. 863-95