The Handbook of Spiritual Development in Childhood and Adolescence

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The Effects of Religion and Gender on Well-Being, Substance Use, and Academic Engagement Among Rural Adolescents (2009, background): “Self-determination theory suggests that adolescents want to integrate their thoughts, motivations, and actions (Deci & Ryan, 1985); it is likely that adolescents who value highly their religiosity have internally motivated religious beliefs and behaviors (Kneezel & Emmons, 2006).”
Seeing Community for the Trees: The Links among Contact with Natural Environments, Community Cohesion, and Crime (2015, background): “SDT further argues that all humans have a basic and innate need for relating and connecting to others or to the world around them (Ryan and Deci 2000, Kneezel and Emmons 2006).”
Meaning in Nature: Meaning in Life as a Mediator of the Relationship Between Nature Connectedness and Well-Being (2013, background): “…models of belief systems, while spirituality is viewed as encompassing a broader perspective relating to perceptions of sacredness and the divine that are not necessarily based in belief in a specific deity, faith, or credo (Newberg and Newberg 2005; Pargament and Mahoney 2009; Wills 2009).”
Religion and Spirituality in Adolescent Development (2009, background): “In a study of 370 youth, Benson, Scales, Sesma, and Roehlkepartain ( 2005 ) found that about two - thirds showed continuous levels of religious importance from the middle to high school years.”