Religion and positive adolescent outcomes: A review of research and theory

By Mark Regnerus. 2003

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Subfields: Health, Sociology and Political Science

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The Teen Years Explained A Guide To Healthy Adolescent Development (2016, background): “, Regnerus, M., & Comer Wright, M. (2003). Coital debut: The role of religiosity and sex attitudes in the Add Health Survey.”
Religious affiliation and hiring discrimination in New England: A field experiment (2013, background): “Research in this area has found SES differences between religious traditions and denominations as well as nearly every other aspect of religion, including congregations (Reimer, 2007), subcongregations (Reimer, 2007), theology (Darnell & Sherkat, 1997), worship style (Edwards, 2009), church practice”
Religiosity and prosocial behaviours in adolescence: the mediating role of prosocial values (2005, background): “Thus, as Smith (2003) has proposed, religiosity provides youth with ‘moral directives’ to help guide their decisions and behaviour.”
Religious Change and Adolescent Family Dynamics (2006, background): “Social scientists often refer to “religious effects” or influences of religiosity, but religiosity is a complex, multidimensional concept with private and public aspects that defy simple explanation and that can yield very different results in studies of adolescent outcomes (Regnerus 2003).”
Intergenerational Religious Dynamics and Adolescent Delinquency (2004, background): “…data and correlate current religion measures to past delinquency measures (Baier & Wright 2001; Johnson et al. Li 2001; for an exception, see Regnerus 2003a), thus our analyses provide more accurate estimates of the effect of religiosity on subsequent delinquency.1 Another benefit of these…”
Religion, Delinquency, and Drug Use (2015, background): “…because they are more attached to their parents, more committed to educational goals, more conventional in moral beliefs, and less likely to have delinquent or drug-using friends than their nonreligious peers (Jang & Johnson, 2001; Johnson et al., 2001; Johnson et al., 2000a; Regnerus, 2003).”
Talking About Sex: Religion and Patterns of Parent–Child Communication about Sex and Contraception (2005, background): “Several recent studies have advocated different measures of religiosity, citing their differential effects on adult and adolescent behavior (Kendler et al. 2003; Nonnemaker, McNeely, and Blum 2003; Regnerus 2003).”
Associations between religiosity, mental health, and subjective well-being among Arabic samples from Egypt and Kuwait (2012, background): “%) showed that the highest levels of religiosity and spirituality were associated with better mental health in adolescents (see also Regnerus, 2003).”
Explaining Religious Effects on Distress Among African Americans (2004, background): “Building on ample evidence that religion promotes beneficial outcomes in the lives of American adolescents (Johnson, Thompson, and Webb 2002; Koenig, McCullough, and Larson 2000; Regnerus 2003), Smith (2003a) proposes a sociological theory explaining the constructive effects of religion.”