Social Context in the Development of Adolescent Religiosity

By Mark Regnerus, Christian A. Smith, Brad Smith. 2004

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Subfields: Health, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Parent and peer relationships and relational spirituality in adolescents and young adults. (2011, background): “Regarding friends, though religious behavior in peers has been shown to predict religious behavior in adolescents (Regenerus et al., 2004), openness to engaging in dialogue about spirituality/religiosity in the context of friendships seems to be a more robust facilitator of spiritual development in…”
• The Effects of Religion and Gender on Well-Being, Substance Use, and Academic Engagement Among Rural Adolescents (2009, background): “When adolescents perceive that their friends are active religiously and think that religion is important, they are more likely to think it is important and be involved themselves (Martin, White, & Perlman, 2003; Regnerus et al., 2004).”
• Religion and Spirituality in Adolescent Development (2009, methodology): “Regnerus et al. ( 2004 ) used National Longitudinal Data of Adolescents Health data to examine how the mean level of adolescents ’ schoolmates ’ inclinations toward religion were associated with adolescents ’ own religious service attendance and perceived importance of religion.”
• Religious Development: How (and Why) Does Religiosity Change from Adolescence to Young Adulthood? (2010, background): “As Zhai et al. (2007:140) argue, parental divorce may “diminish family interest and participation in religious congregations, in part because at least some parents may perceive judgmentalism, coolness, or ostracism on the part of church members.” Second, religious parents tend to have closer relatio”