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104 WEDNESDAY 20 JULYDrawing on social norms theories we suggest that religious beliefs and parcipaon are related to addionalpsychological benefits if they are considered as normave in a certain naonal context. In study 1, we test thishypothesis using the data of the European and World Values Surveys (2005-2009). The results of the mullevelregression analysis in 64 countries suggest that strong descripve and injuncve norms of religiosity at countrylevel increase the happiness of religious and decrease the happiness of non religious individuals. In study 2,we use a mullevel moderated mediaon analysis to examine whether the differences in social integraon ofreligious and non religious individuals in countries where religiosity is normave account for this finding. Ourresults indicate that the effect of religiosity on happiness is parally mediated by social integraon...2.38.3 Religion, Stage & Civil Society: A Mullevel Analysis of the European Values Survey (2008)R. Norrie 11 GK SOCLIFE, University of Cologne, GermanyThis paper aims to establish what it is about religiosity that maers in explaining the link between religion andcivil society, using a mullevel research design. At the micro level, it is tested whether or not belief and/orreligiously derived social capital maer for parcipaon. Simultaneously it is tested if one’s belonging to thedominant religion maers, as a revision to exisng work on Protestant exceponalism, which tends to ignorethe underlying religious context in relaon to the individual’s confession. Exisng studies have also formulatedat the macro level, hypotheses pertaining to the overall religious devoutness of countries and their religioustradions, but have failed to take into account the religious composion of the state. It is argued here thatseparaon of church and state will increase civil society parcipaon as if the state is closed to religion, thenit will manifest itself in civil society...2.38.4 Explicit and Implicit Hypotheses Linking Maro and Micro LevelsJ. Friedrichs 2 , A. Nonnenmacher 11 Leibniz University Hannover, Instute for Polical Science, Germany; 2 University of Cologne, Research Instutefor Sociology, GermanyStudies linking macro level condions to micro level outcomes, such as characteriscs of countries to individualdecisions or acons, make assumpons on the processes relang the two levels. We refer to theseprocesses as ”social mechanisms” (Hedstrom 2005, Mayntz 2005, Opp 2004) – basically a set of interrelatedhypotheses. Unfortunately, these social mechanisms are not always made explicit, and in some cases even aclear macro-micro-hypothesis is wanng. Our methodological study aims at exploring the social mechanismsfor one selected dependent variable on the micro level: life sasfacon. We will analyze publicaons relangthe naonal to the individual level (e.g., European Values Survey) by using a sample of 30 mullevel studieswith life sasfacon as dependent variable, published in internaonal journals between 2007 and 2010. Ouranalycal procedure comprises three steps...2.39 Wider applicaons of cognive interviewing methods and novel implementaonsTo be held on July 20, 2011 from: 16:00 to 17:30, in room 303.Coordinated by:• Michelle Gray - Naonal Centre for Social Research - NatCen, United Kingdom• Joanna D’Ardenne - Naonal Centre for Social Research - NatCen, United Kingdom• Margaret Blake - Naonal Centre for Social Research - NatCen, United Kingdom2.39.1 The use of cognive interviewing methods to evaluate mode effects in survey quesonsM. Gray 2 , M. Blake 2 , P. Campanelli 1 , S. Hope 21 The Survey Coach, United Kingdom; 2 Naonal Centre for Social Research - NatCen, United Kingdom