Finding

 


This finding looks at the relationship between adolescents' religiosity and their use of controlled and illegal substances.

Adolescents who were more religious (i.e. attended church more frequently and assigned a higher importance to religion in their lives) were less likely to smoke cigarettes, engage in binge drinking, and smoke marijuana.


Sample or Data Description
Monitoring the Future study and Youth, Education, and Society study, surveys of 15,595 12th grade students.


Source
"Religiosity and Adolescent Substance Use: The Role of Individual and Contextual Influences"
Wallace, John M. Jr.
Yamaguchi, Ryoko, Bachman, Jerald G.; O'Malley, Patrick M.; Schulenberg, John E.; Johnston, Lloyd D.
Social Problems Vol. 54, Number 2. , 2007. Page(s) 308-327.


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