Losing My Religion: The Social Sources of Religious Decline in Early Adulthood

By Jeremy E. Uecker, Mark Regnerus, Margaret L. Vaaler. 2007

480 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Health, Sociology and Political Science

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In Clinical Psychology

1. Seth J. Schwartz
2. Larry J. Nelson
3. Carolyn McNamara Barry
4. K. Luyckx
5. Renee V. Galliher
6. Byron L. Zamboanga
7. Laura M. Padilla‐Walker
8. Maarten Vansteenkiste

In Health

1. Larry J. Nelson
2. Sahar Davarya
3. Shirene A. Urry
4. Renee V. Galliher
5. Seth J. Schwartz
6. Carolyn McNamara Barry
7. A. Dahl

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Byron L. Zamboanga
2. K. Luyckx
3. Seth J. Schwartz
4. Rachel A. Ritchie
5. A. Meca
6. Larry J. Nelson
7. Carolyn McNamara Barry
8. Sahar Davarya

Citations in the corpus

• Identity in Emerging Adulthood (2013, background): “Additionally, some areas or regions, such as the U.S. South, tend to be characterized by higher levels of public religiosity over time, compared to most other areas or regions (Uecker et al., 2007).”
• Religiosity and spirituality during the transition to adulthood (2010, methodology): “Indeed, Wuthnow (1999) found through retrospective reports that religious adults who engage in regular family rituals (e.”
• Religion, College Grades, and Satisfaction among Students at Elite Colleges and Universities (2010, background): “…to Wuthnow (1988) and Berger’s (1967) arguments that higher education sped the transition from traditionalism to secularization in the 1960s, Uecker et al. (2007) found that on all three of their measures of religiosity (personal salience, attendance, and affiliation), youth who attended…”
• LGBQQ Young Adult Experiences of Religious and Sexual Identity Integration (2009, background): “Developmentally, adolescents and young adults regardless of sexual orientation have a propensity to reduce or discontinue religious participation ( Uecker, Regnerus, & Vaaler, 2007 ).”
• Religious Development: How (and Why) Does Religiosity Change from Adolescence to Young Adulthood? (2010, background): “Although there are exceptions (e.g., Petts 2009; Uecker et al. 2007), much of the previous research on adolescent religiosity has utilized cross-sectional data or longitudinal data with two waves separated by a year.”