Mapping American Adolescent Subjective Religiosity and Attitudes of Alienation Toward Religion: A Research Report

By Christian A. Smith, Robert Faris, M. L. Denton, Mark Regnerus. 2003

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Subjective Religiosity and Depression in the Transition to Adulthood (2005, background): “While a sizable majority of individuals in this age range report having religious beliefs similar to their parents' ( Smith et al. 2003 ), this stage of life is also when religious conversion is most likely to occur (Smith et al. 2002).”
Social Context in the Development of Adolescent Religiosity (2004, background): “Data collection was sponsored by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies and published by the Glenmary Research Center (Bradley, Green, Jones, Lynn, & McNeil, 1992), which reports religious adherence statistics for each county in the United States.”
The relationship of religious coping and spirituality to adjustment and psychological distress in urban early adolescents (2009, result): “Although there is a lack of comparable studies of age differences in spirituality, this result parallels those found in the religiosity literature revealing negative relationships between self-reported religiousness and age in samples of seventh- to ninth-grade students (Pearce et al, 2003 ) and ei”
Religious Appeals and Implicit Attitudes (2011, background): “In a nationally representative survey (The Monitoring the Future Study) conducted between 1976 and 1996, roughly 60% of American 12 graders consistently said that religion is either very or pretty important (as opposed to “not important” or “a little important”; Smith et al., 2003).”