Religiosity and adolescent marijuana use

Religiosity, Smoking and Other Risky Behaviors

“…For young people of different ethnicities, Theda et al (2016) documented a negative relationship between religious importance and religious attendance and substance use. In this context, Varma et al (2017) emphasized that religiosity has a deterring effect in connection to initial and subsequent marijuana use through the intermediation of a perceived risk. The same relationship is documented by Livne et al (2021), for the external manifestation of religiousness (frequency of religious service attendance) in connection to substance use and substance use disorders.…”

“Every Sinner Has a Future”: Religiosity, Future Orientation, Self-Control, and Marijuana Use

“…Given the lack of research that addresses the relationships between religiosity, future orientation, self-control, and delinquency, I examined the effect of religious service attendance and importance of religion on future orientation, self-control, and marijuana use. Because there is a substantial body of research that focuses on the relationship between religiosity and substance use (e.g., Freeman 2019;Guo and Metcalfe 2019;Hill and Pollock 2015;Hoffmann 2014;Jang 2019;Jang et al 2008;Longest and Vaisey 2008;Nie and Yang 2018;Rivera et al 2018;Thomson 2016;Varma et al 2017), and because previous research suggests that religiosity is more strongly related to substance use than serious delinquency (Burkett and White 1974;Miller and Vuolo 2018), I chose to focus on adolescent marijuana use. Based on previous research, I expect that adolescents who attend religious services frequently, and those who believe that religion is important, will be less likely to use marijuana.…”

“…An abundance of research suggests that religiosity reduces the likelihood of juvenile delinquency (for reviews, see Adamczyk et al 2017;Kelly et al 2015;Yeung et al 2009). Although research often finds a direct effect between religiosity and delinquency, many studies find the relationship between religiosity and delinquency is mediated by other variables, including delinquent friends (Desmond et al 2011;Hoffmann 2014;Johnson et al 2001;Ulmer et al 2012), moral beliefs (Desmond et al 2009;Johnson et al 2001), social bonds (Ulmer et al 2012), and perceived risk (Varma et al 2017). One intervening variable that has been addressed in several studies is self-control.…”