Adolescents' Religiousness and Substance Use Are Linked via Afterlife Beliefs and Future Orientation

Autor/inn/en	Holmes, Christopher; Kim-Spoon, Jungmeen
Titel	Adolescents' Religiousness and Substance Use Are Linked via Afterlife Beliefs and Future Orientation
Quelle	In: Journal of Early Adolescence, 37 (2017) 8, S.1054-1077 (24 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0272-4316
DOI	10.1177/0272431616642325
Schlagwörter	Religion; Beliefs; Role; Correlation; Drinking; Smoking; Marijuana; Longitudinal Studies; Structural Equation Models; Religious Factors; Futures (of Society); Adolescents; Intervals; Likert Scales; Statistical Analysis; Hypothesis Testing; Maximum Likelihood Statistics; Virginia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Belief; Glaube; Rollen; Korrelation; Trinken; Rauchen; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Future; Society; Zukunft; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Likert-Skala; Statistische Analyse; Hypothesenprüfung; Hypothesentest
Abstract	Although religiousness has been identified as a protective factor against adolescent substance use, processes through which these effects may operate are unclear. The current longitudinal study examined sequential mediation of afterlife beliefs and future orientation in the relation between adolescent religiousness and cigarette, alcohol, and marijuana use. Participants included 131 adolescents (X-bar age at Time 1 = 12 years) at three time points with approximately 2-year time intervals. Structural equation modeling indicated that higher religiousness at Time 1 was associated with higher afterlife beliefs at Time 2. Higher afterlife beliefs at Time 2 were associated with higher future orientation at Time 2, which in turn was associated with lower use of cigarettes, alcohol, and marijuana at Time 3. Our findings highlight the roles of afterlife beliefs and future orientation in explaining the beneficial effects of religiousness against adolescent substance use. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01