Religiosity Profiles of American Youth in Relation to Substance Use, Violence, and Delinquency

Journal of Youth and Adolescence

Volumn 41, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1560-1575

  Salas Wright, Christopher P ^a   Vaughn, Michael G ^b   Hodge, David R ^c   Perron, Brian E ^d  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Delinquency; Religiosity; Substance abuse; Violence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869095095     PISSN: 00472891     EISSN: 15736601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10964-012-9761-z     Document Type: Article

References (69)

1. Arthur, M. W., Briney, J. S., Hawkins, J. D., Abbott, R. D., Brooke-Weiss, B. L., & Catalano, R. F. (2007). Measuring risk and protection in communities using the Communities That Care Youth Survey. Evaluation and Program Planning, 30, 197-211.
2. Baier, C. L., & Wright, B. R. E. (2001). If you love me, keep my commandments: A meta-analysis of the effect of religion on crime. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 38, 3-21.
3. Benda, B. B., Pope, S. K., & Kelleher, K. J. (2006). Church attendance or religiousness: Their relationship to adolescents' use of alcohol, other drugs, and delinquency. Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly, 24(1-2), 75-87.
4. Berry, D. (2005). Methodological pitfalls in the study of religiosity. Western Journal of Nursing Research, 27(5), 628-647.
5. Button, T. M. M., Stallings, M. C., Rhee, S. H., Corley, R. P., & Hewitt, J. K. (2011). The etiology of stability and change in religious values and religious attendance. Behavior Genetics, 41(2), 201-210.
6. Catalano, R. F., Berglund, M. L., Ryan, J. A., Lonczak, H. S., & Hawkins, J. D. (2004). Positive youth development in the United States: Research findings on evaluations of positive youth development programs. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 591, 98-124.
7. Celeux, G., & Soromenho, G. (1996). An entropy criterion for assessing the number of clusters in a mixture model. Journal of Classification, 13(2), 195-212.
8. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2010a). Trends in the prevalence of selected risk behaviors and obesity for all students: National YRBS: 1991-2009. Retrieved from http://www. cdc. gov/healthyyouth/yrbs/.
9. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2010b). Youth Risk Behavioral Surveillance-United States, 2009. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 59(5), 1-146.
10. Desmond, S. A., Soper, S. E., Purpura, D. J., & Smith, E. (2008). Religiosity, moral beliefs, and delinquency: Does the effect of religiosity on delinquency depend on moral beliefs? Sociological Spectrum, 29(1), 51-71.
11. Dunlop, S. M., & Romer, D. (2010). Adolescent and young adult crash risk: Sensation seeking, substance use propensity and substance use behaviors. Journal of Adolescent Health, 46, 90-92.
12. Eggebeen, D., & Dew, J. (2009). The role of religion in adolescents for family formation in young adulthood. Journal of Marriage and Family, 71(1), 108-121.
13. Floyd, L. J., Pierre, K. A., Hedden, S. L., Lawson, A. L., & Latimer, W. W. (2010). Adolescent drug dealing in race/ethnicity: A population-based study of the differential impact of substance use on involvement in drug trade. The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, 36, 87-91.
14. Fowler, J. (1981). Stages of faith: The psychology of human development and the quest for meaning. San Francisco: Harper.
15. Fowler, J., & Dell, M. L. (2006). Stages of faith from infancy through adolescence: Reflections on three decades of faith development theory. In E. C. Roehlkepartain, P. E. King, L. Wagener, & P. L. Benson (Eds.), The handbook of spiritual development in children and adolescence (pp. 34-45). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
16. Fraser, M. W. (2004). Risk and resilience in childhood: An ecological perspective. Washington, DC: NASW Press.
17. Furrow, J. L., King, P. E., & White, K. (2004). Religion and positive youth development: Identity, meaning, and prosocial concerns. Applied Developmental Science, 8(1), 17-26.
18. Good, M., Willoughby, T., & Busseri, M. A. (2011). Stability and change and adolescent spirituality/religiosity: A person centered approach. Developmental Psychology, 47(2), 538-550.
19. Good, M., Willoughby, T., & Fritjers, J. (2009). Just another club? The distinctiveness of the relation between religious service attendance and adolescent psychosocial adjustment. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 38, 1153-1171.
20. Gunnoe, M. L., & Moore, K. A. (2002). Predictors of religiosity among youth aged 17-22: A longitudinal study of the National Survey of Children. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 41, 613-622.
21. Hart, T. (2006). Spirituality experiences and capacities of children and youth. In E. C. Roehlkepartain, P. E. King, L. Wagener, & P. L. Benson (Eds.), The handbook of spiritual development in children and adolescence (pp. 34-45). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
22. Herrenkohl, T. I., Hill, K. G., Chung, I. J., Guo, J., Abbott, R. D., & Hawkins, J. D. (2003). Protective factors against serious and violent behavior in adolescence: A prospective study of aggressive children. Social Work Research, 27(3), 179-191.
23. Hobbs, J. D. J., Kushner, M. G., Lee, S. S., Reardon, S. M., & Maurer, E. W. (2011). Meta-analysis of supplemental treatment for depressive and anxiety disorders in patients being treated for alcohol dependence. American Journal of Addictions, 20(4), 319-329.
24. Hodge, D. R., Andereck, K., & Montoya, H. (2007). The protective influence of spiritual-religious lifestyle profiles on tobacco use, alcohol use, and gambling. Social Work Research, 31(4), 211-219.
25. Hodge, D. R., Marsiglia, F. F., & Nieri, T. (2011). Religion and substance abuse among youth of Mexican heritage: A social capital perspective. Social Work Research, 35(3), 137-146.
26. Holden, R. R. (2010). Social desirability. In R. J. Corsini & W. E. Craighead (Eds.), Encyclopedia of psychology. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.
27. Johnson, B. R., Larson, D. B., DeLi, S., & Jang, S. J. (2000). Escaping from the crime of inner cities: Church attendance and religious salience among disadvantaged youth. Justice Quarterly, 17(2), 377-391.
28. Johnston, L. D., O'Malley, P. M., Bachman, J. G., & Schulenberg, J. E. (2011). Monitoring the future national results on adolescent drug use: Overview of key findings, 2010. Ann Arbor: Institute for Social Research, The University of Michigan.
29. King, P. E. (2003). Religion and identity: The role of ideological, social, and spiritual contexts. Applied Developmental Science, 7(3), 197-204.
30. Koenig, H. G., King, D., & Carson, V. B. (2012). Handbook of religion and health (2nd ed.). New York: Oxford University Press.
31. Kofler, M. J., McCart, M. R., Zajac, K., Ruggiero, K. J., Saunders, B. E., & Kilpatrick, D. G. (2011). Depression and delinquency covariation in an accelerated longitudinal sample of adolescents. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 79(4), 458-469.
32. Krug, E. G., Mercy, J. A., Dahlberg, L. L., & Zwi, A. B. (2002). The world report on violence and health. The Lancet, 360, 1083-1088.
33. Lerner, R. M., Alberts, A. E., Anderson, P. M., & Dowling, E. M. (2006). On making humans human: Spirituality and the promotion of positive youth development. In E. C. Roehlkepartain, P. E. King, L. Wagener, & P. L. Benson (Eds.), The handbook of spiritual development in childhood and adolescence (pp. 60-72). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
34. Lerner, R. M., Roeser, R. W., & Phelps, E. (2008). Positive youth development and spirituality: From theory to research. West Conshohocken, PA: Templeton Foundation Press.
35. Little, M., & Steinberg, L. (2006). Psychosocial correlates of adolescent drug dealing in the inner city: Potential roles for opportunity, conventional commitments, and maturity. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 43(4), 357-386.
36. Luthar, S., Cicchetti, D., & Becker, B. (2000). The construct of resilience: A critical evaluation and guidelines for future work. Child Development, 71, 543-562.
37. Markstrom, C. A., Huey, E., Stiles, B. M., & Krause, A. L. (2010). Frameworks of caring and helping in adolescents: Are empathy, religiosity, and spirituality related constructs? Youth Society, 42(1), 59-80.
38. Marsiglia, F. F., Kulis, S., Nieri, T., & Parsai, M. (2005). God forbid! Substance use among religious and nonreligious youth. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 75(4), 585-598.
39. McCullough, M. E., Tsang, J. A., & Brion, S. (2003). Personality traits in adolescence as predictors of religiousness in early adulthood: Findings from the Terman Longitudinal Study. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 29, 980-991.
40. McCullough, M. E., & Willoughby, B. L. B. (2009). Religion, self-regulation, and self-control: Associations, explanations, and implications. Psychological Bulletin, 135(1), 69-93.
41. Nonnemaker, J. M., McNeely, C. A., & Blum, R. W. (2003). Public and private domains of religiosity and adolescent health risk behaviors: Evidence from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health. Social Science and Medicine, 57(11), 2049-2054.
42. Nylund, K. L., Asparouhov, T., & Muthen, B. O. (2007). Deciding on the number of classes and latent class analysis and growth mixture modeling: A Monte Carlo simulation study. Structural Equation Modeling, 14(4), 535-569.
43. Pew Research Center. (2010). Religion among the millennials: Less religiously active than older Americans, but fairly traditional in other ways. Washington, DC: Pew Research Center.
44. Physician Leadership on National Drug Policy. (2002). Adolescent substance abuse: A public health priority: An evidence-based, comprehensive, and integrative approach. Providence, RI: Brown University, Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies.
45. Piaget, J. (1976). The child and reality. New York: Penguin.
46. Pickett, W., Craig, W., Harel, Y., Cunningham, J., Simpson, K., Molcho, M., et al. (2005). Cross-national study of fighting and weapon carrying as determinants of adolescent injury. Pediatrics, 116(6), e855-e863.
47. Polit, D. F. (2010). Statistics and data analysis for nursing research (2nd ed.). New York: Pearson.
48. Regnerus, M. D. (2003). Moral communities and adolescent delinquency: Religious contexts and community social control. The Sociological Quarterly, 44(4), 523-554.
49. Regnerus, M. D. (2010). Religion and Adolescent Sexual Behavior. In C. Ellison, & R. Hummer (Eds.), Religion, families, and health: Population-based research in the United States. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
50. Resnick, M. D., Ireland, M., & Borowsky, I. (2004). Youth violence perpetration: What protects? What predicts? Findings from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health. Journal of Adolescent Health, 35, 424e1-424e10.
51. Rew, L., & Wong, Y. J. (2006). A systematic review of associations among religiosity/spirituality and adolescent health attitudes and behaviors. Journal of Adolescent Health, 38, 433-442.
52. Roehlkepartain, E. C., King, P. E., Wagener, L., & Benson, P. L. (Eds.). (2006). The handbook of spiritual development in children and adolescence. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
53. Rutheford, A., Zwi, A. B., Grove, N. J., & Butchart, A. (2007). Violence: A priority for public health? Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 61(9), 764-770.
54. Scott, R. O. (2001). Are religious or are you spiritual: A look in the mirror. Spirituality and Health, 1, 26-28.
55. Short, J. F., & Hughes, L. A. (2008). Juvenile delinquency and delinquents: The nexus of social change. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education.
56. Smith, C., & Denton, M. L. (2005). Soul-searching: The religious and spiritual lives of American teenagers. New York: Oxford University Press.
57. Smith, C., & Faris, R. (2002). Religion and American adolescent delinquency, risk behaviors, and constructive social activities. Chapel Hill, NC: NSYR.
58. Smith, C., Faris, R., Denton, M. L., & Regnerus, M. (2003). Mapping American adolescent subjective religiosity and attitudes of alienation toward religion: A research report. Sociology of Religion, 64(1), 111-133.
59. StataCorp. (2011). Stata Statistical Software: Release 12. College Station, TX: StataCorp LP.
60. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAHMSA). (2009). Office of Applied Studies. Results from the 2008 National Survey on Drug Use and Health: National Findings. Rockville, MD: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
61. Uecker, J., Regnerus, M. D., & Vaaler, M. (2007). Losing my religion: The social sources of religious decline in early adulthood. Social Forces, 85, 1667-1692.
62. Vaughn, M. G., Freedenthal, S., Jenson, J. M., & Howard, M. O. (2007). Psychiatric symptoms and substance use among juvenile offenders: A latent profile investigation. Criminal Justice and Behavior, 34, 1296-1312.
63. Vermunt, J. K. & Magidson, J. (2008). LG-syntax user's guide: Manual for latent GOLD 4. 5 syntax module. Belmont, MA: Statistical Innovations Inc.
64. Wallace, J. M., & Williams, D. R. (1997). Religion and adolescent health-compromising behavior. In J. Schulenberg, J. L. Maggs, & K. Hurrelmann (Eds.), Health risks and developmental transitions during adolescence (pp. 448-468). Cambridge, UK: University Press.
65. Wallace, J. M., Yamaguchi, R., Bachman, J. G., O'Malley, P. M., Schulenberg, J. E., & Johnston, L. D. (2007). Religiosity and adolescent substance use: The role of individual and contextual influences. Social Problems, 54(2), 308-327.
66. White, H. R., Loeber, R., & Farrington, D. P. (2008). Substance use, drug dealing, gang membership, and the gun carrying and their predictive associations with serious violence and serious theft. In R. Loeber, D. P. Farrington, M. Stouthamer-Loeber, & H. R. White (Eds.), Violence and serious theft: Development and prediction from childhood to adulthood (pp. 137-166). New York: Routledge.
67. Williams, J. H., Bright, C. L., & Petersen, G. (2011). Racial and ethnic differences in risk and protective factors associated with youth violence. In T. Herrenkohl, E. Aisenberg, J. H. Williams, & J. Jensen (Eds.), Violence in context: Current evidence on risk, protection, and prevention. New York: Oxford University Press.
68. Yang, C. (2006). Evaluating latent class analyses in qualitative phenotype identification. Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, 50, 1090-1104.
69. Zhang, J., & Yu, K. (1998). What's the relative risk? A method of correcting the odds ratio in cohort studies of, and outcomes. Journal of the American Medical Association, 280(19), 1690-1691.