Transmission of religious values: Relations between parents' and daughters' beliefs

Sixty-two White, middle-class, undergraduate women (mean age = 21.1 years) and their parents participated in a study on the transmission of religious beliefs. Accuracy of daughters' perceptions of their parents' beliefs was f ound to be related to how frequently parents talked about their beliefs and to mother-father agreement on beliefs. Daughters' perceptions of the warmt h of the parent-child relationship were related to the agreement between da ughters' beliefs and their perceptions of parents' beliefs. The relation be tween parents' beliefs and daughters' beliefs was mediated by daughters' pe rceptions of their parents' beliefs.