Start Date
16-5-2019 1:30 PM
End Date
16-5-2019 12:00 AM
Description
The Seventh-day Adventist Church (SDA) in Mexico is organized into five geographic zones (Conferences). The instrument Survey 2017 for Members of the SDA, created by the General Conference of SDA, was applied in order to identify the SDA members’ profile in Mexico in relation to aspects related to belief and practice. The sampling scheme used was non-probabilistic for convenience. The sample size was n = 2,351 members of the SDA in Mexico. An exploratory descriptive analysis was carried out in seven key aspects: personal demographics, household demographics and religion, religious behavior and religious roles, attitudes and experiences, wellbeing, beliefs and health. A factorial analysis was made to the sections "Attitudes and Religious Experiences" and "Beliefs", using Principal Component Analysis. The internal consistency of the Religious Attitudes and Experiences section was evaluated by means of the Cronbach's Alpha coefficient. Three factors were identified regarding Attitudes and Religious Experiences: 1) Identity and Mission, 2) Biblical Foundations, 3) Training and Communication. For Beliefs, two factors were identified: 1) Fundamental Beliefs, 2) Spiritual Implications. Regarding the extracted factors, comparisons were made by Conference, gender and age, using ANOVA of a factor. Spatial representations of the performance of each Conference were made. The IBM SPSS Statistics Version 22, R-Studio®, and QGis® software were used for data analysis. The level of significance was set at 0.05
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Beliefs and Practices of the Members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church of Mexico
The Seventh-day Adventist Church (SDA) in Mexico is organized into five geographic zones (Conferences). The instrument Survey 2017 for Members of the SDA, created by the General Conference of SDA, was applied in order to identify the SDA members’ profile in Mexico in relation to aspects related to belief and practice. The sampling scheme used was non-probabilistic for convenience. The sample size was n = 2,351 members of the SDA in Mexico. An exploratory descriptive analysis was carried out in seven key aspects: personal demographics, household demographics and religion, religious behavior and religious roles, attitudes and experiences, wellbeing, beliefs and health. A factorial analysis was made to the sections "Attitudes and Religious Experiences" and "Beliefs", using Principal Component Analysis. The internal consistency of the Religious Attitudes and Experiences section was evaluated by means of the Cronbach's Alpha coefficient. Three factors were identified regarding Attitudes and Religious Experiences: 1) Identity and Mission, 2) Biblical Foundations, 3) Training and Communication. For Beliefs, two factors were identified: 1) Fundamental Beliefs, 2) Spiritual Implications. Regarding the extracted factors, comparisons were made by Conference, gender and age, using ANOVA of a factor. Spatial representations of the performance of each Conference were made. The IBM SPSS Statistics Version 22, R-Studio®, and QGis® software were used for data analysis. The level of significance was set at 0.05
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Name: Raúl Rodríguez
Title of oral presentation: Beliefs and practices of the members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church of Mexico
Position title: Professor of Statistics and Mathematics. Engineering School. Montemorelos University
Education training:
B.S. Education: Mathematics & Physics. Montemorelos University. Completion date: 08/1990
MSc. Applied Statistics. Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (ITESM). Completion date 07/2006.