Religious Factors and Drug Usage among Seventh-Day Adventist Youth in North America

Dudley, Roger L.; Mutch, Patricia B.; Cruise, Robert J.

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“…Jensen and Erickson (1979), Lorch and Hughes (1985) and Dudley, Mutch, and Cruise (1987) reported lower tobacco use among Seventh Day Adventist and Mormon youth. On the other hand, Ferraro and JewellPaton (1988) found that Baptists were just as likely as members of other denominations to smoke.…”

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The Effect of Religion and Religiosity on Drug Use Among a Selected Sample of Post Secondary Students in Scotland

Engs

Mullen

1999

Addiction Research

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When in the collection and within a category, click on "title" to see all items in alphabetical order. The CollectionThis document is part of a collection that serves two purposes. First, it is a digital archive for a sampling of unpublished documents, presentations, questionnaires and limited publications resulting from over forty years of research. Second, it is a public archive for data on college student drinking patterns on the national and international level collected for over 20 years. Research topics by Dr. Engs have included the exploration of hypotheses concerning the determinants of behaviors such as student drinking patterns; models that have examine the etiology of cycles of prohibition and temperance movements, origins of western European drinking cultures (attitudes and behaviors concerning alcohol) from antiquity, eugenics, Progressive Era, and other social reform movements with moral overtones-Clean Living Movements; biographies of health and social reformers including Upton Sinclair; and oral histories of elderly monks. Indiana University Archives BackgroundSome studies suggest that religious variables are associated with substance use and abuse however, they tend to be compartmentalized into alcohol, tobacco, or illicit drugs. Few have examined both licit and illicit drugs. The purpose of this study was to investigate the patterns of licit and illicit recreational drug use among postsecondary students in terms of religious background and religiosity. Method: the Queensland Alcohol and Drug Study Questionnaire was completed by students attending courses in "helping profession" departments such as medicine, nursing, education, and psychology from 22 departments at universities and colleges in five Scottish cities. The sample consisted of 3117 females and 949 males. ResultsAmong female students a higher percent (p <.05) who were Not Religious consumed over 14 drinks per week (55.5 vs 36.2%), tobacco (43.3 vs 29.3%), marijuana (32.4 vs 15. 1 %), amphetamines (8.4 vs 4. 1 %), LSD (7.4 vs 2.9%), and Ecstasy (4.8 vs 2. 1 %) compared to those who were Very Religious. A higher percent of Roman Catholic's consumed alcoholic beverages while a higher percent of Protestants, other than Church of Scotland, consumed tobacco. For all other substances those with "other" or no religious background had a higher proportion of users. There was a positive association between illicit drug use and both high alcohol consumption and tobacco use. In particular a strong association was found between tobacco and marijuana (r=.45). Among males a higher proportion of students (p <.05) who were Not Religious consumed over 21 drinks per week (61.3 vs 32.4%), tobacco, (47.8 vs 35.2%), marijuana (50.2 vs 28.3%), amphetamines (15.9 vs 8.0%), LSD (17.6 vs 8.4%), and Ecstasy (9.2 vs 5.2%) compared to students who were Very Religious. A higher percentage of male 1 students with "other" or no religious backgrounds used tobacco and a higher proportion of Roman Catholics used marijuana, amphetamines and Ecstasy. Illicit drug consump...

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The Effect of Religion and Religiosity on Drug Use Among a Selected Sample of Post Secondary Students in Scotland

Engs

Mullen

1999

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“…1 With some exceptions (the most notable of which is Hirschi and Stark 1969), researchers have concluded that religiosity is negatively related to delinquency (Higgins and Albrecht 1977;Jensen and Erickson 1979;Sloane and Potvin 1986;Cochran 1988Cochran ,1989 and alcohol and illicit drug use (Burkett 1977(Burkett , 1980Turner and Willis 1979;Mclntosh, Fitch, Wilson, and Nyberg 1981;Hadaway, Elifson, and Petersen 1984;Sloane and Potvin 1986;Cochran and Akers 1989), although the strength of the association may be weaker for the more serious drugs (Mclntosh et al 1981;Hadaway et al 1984;Cochran 1988). Furthermore, some investigators have found that the impact of religion on deviance varies by denomination (Jensen and Erickson 1979;Schlegel and Sanborn 1979;Bock, Cochran, and Beeghley 1987;Dudley, Mutch, and Cruise 1987;Cochran, Beeghley, and Bock 1988;Free 1992), with the more "conservative" (i.e., fundamental) denominations exerting a stronger impact on drug nonuse than the more "liberal" (i.e., less fundamental) denominations.…”

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

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1994

Deviant Behavior

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“…Higher parent religiosity is also associated with positive outcomes in children and teens: fewer behavior problems (Miller, Warner, Wickramaratne, & Weissman 1997), less problematic and less frequent alcohol use (Burkett, 1993;Dudley, Mutch, & Cruise, 1987;Perkins, 1987), more prosocial traits (Gunnoe, Hetherington, & Reiss, 1999), less serious antisocial behavior (Elifson, Petersen, & Hadaway, 1983), less depression (Miller et al, 1997), and less marijuana use (Dudley et al, 1987). Overall, Mahoney et al (2001) conclude that ''greater parental religiousness relates to more positive parenting and better child adjustment'' (p. 559).…”

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Spiritually based parenting workshop: An outcome study

Howard

Westefeld

Olds

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Mental Health, Religion & Culture

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The present study observed the effects of one spiritually based parenting workshop: Parent and Family Healing. A repeated-measures design using before, after, and 3-week follow-up revealed that in the sample of 65 parents, Parent and Family Healing significantly lowered parents' stress and negative affect, and increased their parental efficacy and parental satisfaction. These effects were all maintained at the 3-week follow-up. The workshop also significantly increased parents' positive affect, but this change was not maintained 3 weeks following the workshop. Spirituality level did not change significantly over the course of the workshop or at follow-up, despite the workshop being spiritually based. Participants rated all the spiritual components of the workshop as between somewhat and very helpful. Finally, parents' free-response answers revealed very positive opinions about the workshop, its effects, and the spiritual approach taken.

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Religious Factors and Drug Usage among Seventh-Day Adventist Youth in North America

Cited by 39 publications

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The Effect of Religion and Religiosity on Drug Use Among a Selected Sample of Post Secondary Students in Scotland

The Effect of Religion and Religiosity on Drug Use Among a Selected Sample of Post Secondary Students in Scotland

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

Spiritually based parenting workshop: An outcome study

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