Does family process mediate the effect of religiosity on adolescent deviance?: Revisiting the notion of spuriousness

Criminal Justice and Behavior

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 97-118

  Pickering, Lloyd E ^a   Vazsonyi, Alexander T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

^b AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Deviant behavior; Family process; Religiosity; SEM

Indexed keywords

EID: 72449152227     PISSN: 00938548     EISSN: 15523594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0093854809347813     Document Type: Article

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