Religiosity, religious conservatism, bonds to school, and juvenile delinquency among three categories of drug users

Free, Marvin D.

doi:10.1080/01639625.1994.9967965

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“…As predicted, children of more educated mothers reported greater engagement with school, consistent with a number of previous findings (Free, 1994;Jenkins, 1997). It is likely that more educated mothers instil more positive values in their children regarding education and are more comfortable in dealing with school staff.…”

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Longitudinal Antecedents of School Bonding in Adolescence

Terrett

O’Connor

Hawkins

et al. 2012

The Australian Educational and Developmental Psychologist

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School bonding has been identified as a protective factor for a broad range of adolescent outcomes, and it is thus important to identify factors that foster positive relationships with school. The ecological perspective suggests the importance of both individual and contextual antecedents across developmental periods, yet previous research has tended to examine only a narrow selection of school bonding correlates. This study sought to identify longitudinal influences on school bonding, examining the role of both individual and contextual factors over childhood and early adolescence. We draw on data from 1,308 participants (51% female) in the Australian Temperament Project, a large representative Australian sample that has followed the psychosocial development of participants from infancy to adulthood, and thus provides a rare opportunity to address this gap in the literature. Path analysis was conducted to examine individual and contextual predictors of school bonding at 15-16 years. The individual characteristics of higher academic achievement and sociability, and lower hyperactivity predicted school bonding. Contextual factors also made a significant contribution, including the parent-child relationships and maternal education. The results indicate that both individual and contextual factors make unique contributions to school bonding in adolescence, suggesting a number of potential targets for intervention.

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“…Some research supports this link, with Jenkins reporting that maternal education level was one of the strongest predictors of school commitment among adolescents. Free (1994) similarly found that paternal educational level was positively related to school attachment.…”

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Longitudinal Antecedents of School Bonding in Adolescence

Terrett

O’Connor

Hawkins

et al. 2012

The Australian Educational and Developmental Psychologist

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“…Other important characteristics of school bonding include an attachment to prosocial peers and belief in established prosocial norms (Hawkins and Weis, 1985). School bonding in general has been found to be protective against many problem behaviors, including delinquency (Cernkovich & Giordano, 1992;Free, 1994;O'Donnell et al, 1995;Simons-Morton et al, 1999;Zhang & Messner, 1996), school dropout (Cernkovich & Giordano, 1992;Crusto, 2000;Eggert et al, 1994), teen-age pregnancy (Danzinger, 1995), 5 All of the random-coefficient models were also specified in HLM, Version 5.04 (Raudenbush & Bryk, 2002) in order to compare the regular standard errors to the robust standard errors. The interpretation of the results of the models with the robust standard errors was indistinguishable from those reported in this manuscript.…”

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Intraindividual Variability of School Bonding and Adolescents? Beliefs About the Effect of Substance Use on Future Aspirations

2005

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The study examines the dynamic relationship between school bonding, beliefs about the deleterious effects of substance use on future aspirations, and subsequent substance use among a sample of 1065 male and female middle school students. First, a mediation model was assessed. Adolescents' perceptions about the harmful effects of substance use on their future aspirations emerged as a salient mediator of the relationship between school bonding and subsequent substance use. Second, the intraindividual variability of school bonding and its effect on students' beliefs about the potential harm of substance use on future aspirations was assessed through random-coefficient models. Students who tended to be poorly bonded to school were less likely to perceive that substance use may impede the attainment of their future goals. Furthermore, a strong intraindividual effect of school bonding was observed, indicating that as a student became more or less bonded to school his/her belief that substance use could affect future aspirations similarly changed.

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“…The degree of conservatism also determines a religion's influence on its members' behavior. Generally, more conservative religions exercise a stronger influence over their congregations (Amoateng & Bahr, 1986;Free, 1994; National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse, 2001). This influence extends to substance use behavior, as evidenced by L. Miller et al's (2000) study, which found that adolescents who were affiliated with more fundamentalist Christian denominations had a later age of onset for alcohol use and were more likely to abstain from drinking.…”

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Marsiglia

Kulis

Nieri

et al. 2005

American Journal of Orthopsychiatry

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Among a predominately Mexican and Mexican American sample of preadolescents, religiosity protected against lifetime alcohol, cigarette, and marijuana use and recent alcohol and cigarette use when religious affiliation was controlled. When religiosity was controlled, however, adolescents with no religious affiliation and adolescents who were religiously affiliated reported similar substance use outcomes. Interaction effects demonstrated that the protective effect of greater religiosity operated more strongly in some religions than in others for selected outcomes. Overall, the impact of religiosity on reported drug use did not differ significantly for more and less acculturated Latino youth. Keywords adolescents; drug use; religiosity; Mexican American; acculturation Adolescence is a life period marked by significant personal and social changes that are associated with unacceptably high substance use rates (Johnston, O'Malley, & Bachman, 1998a, 1998b. Initiation into substance use at this age is of special concern given that early drug use places an individual at greater risk for later use (M. A. Miller, Alberts, Hecht, Trost, & Krizek, 2000). Yet adolescence is also a period of attachment transitions and religious changes (Granquist, 2002). Compared with adults, adolescents are more likely to be searching for purpose and identity (L. Miller, Davies, & Greenwald, 2000). In this search, religion may be a source for information or answers, providing guidelines for behavior and opportunities for prosocial interaction.Religion has been identified as having a protective effect against substance use, including for youth (Wallace & Bachman, 1991). Yet further research is needed to understand how religion affects adolescents as they experience multiple developmental and social changes. Although religiosity and religious affiliation have each been associated with youth substance use outcomes, still relatively little is known about the relationship between these two NIH-PA Author ManuscriptNIH-PA Author Manuscript NIH-PA Author Manuscript phenomena and about how this relationship may influence adolescent substance use. Furthermore, little is known about how the influences of religion and acculturation combine in the life of Latino adolescents in the Southwest, many of whom come from immigrant families. This article focuses on the protective effects of religion, exploring the influence of religiosity within certain religious affiliations and across levels of acculturation, using a predominately Mexican and Mexican American sample of adolescents. The two hypotheses of the study are that religiosity and religious affiliation will have a protective effect on the drug use behaviors and norms of preadolescents in the Southwest and that acculturation will mediate the effect of religion. Literature Review ReligiosityReligiosity is a multidimensional construct referring to a person's behavioral and attitudinal religious fervor, regardless of the content of his or her beliefs (Amey, Albrecht, & Miller, 1996). The literature ...

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Religiosity, religious conservatism, bonds to school, and juvenile delinquency among three categories of drug users

Cited by 37 publications

References 61 publications

Longitudinal Antecedents of School Bonding in Adolescence

Longitudinal Antecedents of School Bonding in Adolescence

Intraindividual Variability of School Bonding and Adolescents? Beliefs About the Effect of Substance Use on Future Aspirations

God forbid! Substance use among religious and nonreligious youth.

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