Maternal and Family Correlates of Intrinsic Religiosity Profiles Among Low-Income Urban African American Adolescents

Kliewer, Wendy; Washington-Nortey, Melissa; Yendork, Joana Salifu; Sosnowski, David W.; Wright, Anna W.; McGuire, Kristina

doi:10.1007/s10964-019-01095-y

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“…It would also be instructive for future research with more sample diversity to consider whether changes in religious doubt may have a stronger impact on health marginalized youth groups based on sex and race, as these groups already display declines in religiosity during emerging adulthood (Kliewer et al. 2020; Woodell and Schwadel 2020)…”

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“…Although there are multiple religious pathways that young people can follow, emerging adults are more likely to decrease their attendance at religious services (Barry and Abo‐Zena 2014; Uecker, Regnerus, and Vaaler 2007), consider religious disaffiliation (Sherkat and Wilson 1995; Smith 2000; Vargas 2012) and become less religious on other dimensions, such as subjective religious importance, spiritual connectedness, or prayer frequency (Fisher 2017; Kliewer et al. 2020; Simsek et al. 2019; Smith and Snell 2009; Uecker et al.…”

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Changes in Religious Doubt and Physical and Mental Health in Emerging Adulthood

Upenieks

2021

Scientific Study of Religion

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Researchers are increasingly identifying a number of elements of the “dark side” of religion that undermine its overall positive relationship with well‐being. This study assesses the impact of changes in religious doubt for physical health and depression in emerging adulthood, a life course stage when individuals begin to form their own religious identity. Using Waves 3 and 4 of the National Study of Youth and Religion, a latent class growth analysis was used to derive four trajectories of religious doubt (stable no doubt, stable doubt, increasing doubt, decreasing doubt). Regression results suggest that those in the increasing doubt class reported higher depression and worse self‐rated health than with stable no doubt. Causal mediation analyses revealed that a decreased sense of meaning in life was found to mediate this relationship. This study sets forth implications for future research centered on religion and health over the life course.

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Changes in Religious Doubt and Physical and Mental Health in Emerging Adulthood

Upenieks

2021

Scientific Study of Religion

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“…However, they used existing data focused more generally on the emotional climate of the parent–adolescent relationship (indexed via the Children's Report of Parent Behavior [CRPBI]) to test James's (2016) conceptualization of microprotections. Although the Parental Acceptance Subscale of the CRPBI is a widely used measure of parental warmth and support, it tends to assess how reflective the items are of the caregiver (e.g., really unlike or really like ) rather than the frequency of the behaviors (Gonzalez et al, 2021; Kliewer et al, 2020), and some have reported poor test–retest reliability (intraclass correlation coefficient = .47; Gonzalez et al, 2021). Building on this work, the present study developed a scale to index the small daily caring, supportive, and loving behaviors parents engage in and extended past research by testing the generalizability of parental microprotections beyond Black adolescents and their families.…”

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Parental microprotections: Testing measurement equivalence in Black, Latinx, and White families

Dotterer,

Ferguson,

Schwartz

et al. 2023

Family Relations

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ObjectiveThis study examined measurement equivalence of parental microprotections in Black, Latinx, and White families.BackgroundMicroprotections refer to the small daily caring, supportive, and loving behaviors Black parents engage in to counteract the negative effects of racism and discrimination. It is possible that this parenting practice applies to other families in which adolescents are at risk for discrimination because of social identities and/or membership in a stigmatized group (e.g., Latinx adolescents, sexual minority adolescents).MethodsParticipants were parent–adolescent dyads (N = 395) from across the United States. Adolescents were in Grades 9 through 12, and approximately one third of the families identified as Black/African American (n = 131), one third as Hispanic/Latinx (n = 132), and one third as White (n = 132).ResultsMeasurement equivalence was evaluated through a series of multigroup confirmatory factor analysis. Results showed strict measurement invariance in parent reports of parental microprotections across all three racial/ethnic groups. Adolescent reports of mothers' microprotections demonstrated strict measurement invariance and adolescent reports of fathers' microprotections achieved configural measurement invariance.ConclusionThese results support the use of the Parental Microprotections Scale in African American/Black, Hispanic/Latinx, and White families.ImplicationsParental microprotections are one way that parents can nurture hope, happiness, and health despite discrimination that adolescents may face. The Parental Microprotections Scale may be useful for family science practitioners and researchers who are interested in evaluating potential supports in adolescents and their families.

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“…An important role in this process is played by the extent to which parents discuss, argue and give reasons about why certain things are moral or not, and how a decision can affect others (Hoffman 1970; Cornwall 1989; Regnerus 2003; Petts 2015). Even if adolescents develop their autonomy as they age, parents still exert a great influence on them, especially in the development of values (Kliewer et al 2019).…”

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Individual, Familial and Social Environment Factors associated with Religiosity among Urban High School Students

Sârbu

Lazăr

Popovici

2021

Review of Religious Research

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Background Adolescence is a time when beliefs and values are developed and when the influences of the significant others take shape in the life of the future young adult and manifest themselves in affecting the level of religiosity. Apart from other factors, the relationship between adolescents and parents is essential for understanding the development of religiosity. Although numerous studies show an association between the religiosity of parents and adolescents’ beliefs and practices, there is a need for a deeper understanding of the mechanism of religious socialization within the family. Purpose This study seeks to explain how adolescents’ religious beliefs and participation relates to the religiosity of significant others, relationship with their parents and other individual factors such as gender and parents’ education and occupation. Methods As part of the Youth in Europe programe, a questionnaire-based study was conducted in 108 randomly selected classes from 84 high-schools in Bucharest, Romania. Data from 2604 respondents was used to identify the factors associated with religiosity at the individual, familial and social environment level of high school students. Results The main findings reveal that adolescents with better relationships with their parents are more religious in terms of religious beliefs and religious participation than those with lesser relationships. Girls show a higher level of individual religiosity than boys, but boys attend more often religious services. Furthermore, adolescents coming from families with lower socioeconomic status have higher scores on religious beliefs, but they score lower on religious participation. Conclusions and Implications Adolescents’ religiosity relates to/associates with many variables, being a dynamic process. Its understanding resides in studying the complexity of relationships that shape the development of religious belief and behavior.

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Maternal and Family Correlates of Intrinsic Religiosity Profiles Among Low-Income Urban African American Adolescents

Cited by 7 publications

References 28 publications

Changes in Religious Doubt and Physical and Mental Health in Emerging Adulthood

Changes in Religious Doubt and Physical and Mental Health in Emerging Adulthood

Parental microprotections: Testing measurement equivalence in Black, Latinx, and White families

Individual, Familial and Social Environment Factors associated with Religiosity among Urban High School Students

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