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Religious Involvement and Health over Time: Predictive Effects in a National Sample of African Americans.

Journal for the scientific study of religion

Roth DL, Usher T, Clark EM, Holt CL.
PMID: 28502992
J Sci Study Relig. 2016 Jun;55(2):417-424. doi: 10.1111/jssr.12269. Epub 2016 Aug 09.

In this study, two telephone interviews that assessed both religious involvement and health-related quality of life were conducted approximately 2.5 years apart in a national sample of 290 African Americans. Religious involvement was assessed with an instrument that measured...

An Evaluation of the Psychometric Properties and Criterion Validity of the Religious Social Support Scale.

Journal for the scientific study of religion

Willoughby MT, Cadigan RJ, Burchinal M, Skinner D.
PMID: 19924270
J Sci Study Relig. 2008 Mar 12;47(1):147-159. doi: 10.1111/j.1468-5906.2008.00398.x.

This study evaluates the psychometric properties and criterion validity of the Religious Social Support (RSS) Scale in a diverse, representative community sample of new mothers (N = 1,156). Results indicated that two factors best represented the RSS. Criterion validity...

Alternative Schooling Strategies and the Religious Lives of American Adolescents.

Journal for the scientific study of religion

Uecker JE.
PMID: 21709822
J Sci Study Relig. 2008 Dec;47(4):563-584. doi: 10.1111/j.1468-5906.2008.00427.x.

I analyze the effects of Catholic schooling, Protestant schooling, and homeschooling on adolescents' religious lives and test three mechanisms through which these schooling strategies might influence religiosity: friendship networks, network closure, and adult mentors. Data from Wave 1 of...

Protestant Clergy and the Culture Wats: An Empirical Test of Hunter's Thesis.

Journal for the scientific study of religion

Uecker JE, Lucke G.
PMID: 24072933
J Sci Study Relig. 2011 Dec;50(4):692-706. doi: 10.1111/j.1468-5906.2011.01601.x.

This study instead focuses on culture wars among religious elites-clergy-and tests three aspects of the culture wars thesis: (1) whether cultural wars exist at all among religious elites, (2) whether clergy attitudes are polarized on these issues, and (3)...

Do People Who Believe in God Report More Meaning in Their Lives? The Existential Effects of Belief.

Journal for the scientific study of religion

Cranney S.
PMID: 24729632
J Sci Study Relig. 2013 Sep 01;52(3):638-646. doi: 10.1111/jssr.12046.

I conduct the first large-N study explicitly exploring the association between belief in God and sense of purpose in life. This relationship, while often discussed informally, has received little empirical attention. Here I use the General Social Survey to...

A Person-Centered Examination of Adolescent Religiosity Using Latent Class Analysis.

Journal for the scientific study of religion

Pearce LD, Foster EM, Hardie JH.
PMID: 24043905
J Sci Study Relig. 2013 Mar 01;52(1):57-79. doi: 10.1111/jssr.12001.

Empirical studies of religion's role in society, especially those focused on individuals and analyzing survey data, conceptualize and measure religiosity on a single measure or a summary index of multiple measures. Other concepts, such as "lived religion," "believing without...

Factor Analysis of the Mystical Experience Questionnaire: A Study of Experiences Occasioned by the Hallucinogen Psilocybin.

Journal for the scientific study of religion

Maclean KA, Leoutsakos JM, Johnson MW, Griffiths RR.
PMID: 23316089
J Sci Study Relig. 2012 Dec;51(4):721-737. doi: 10.1111/j.1468-5906.2012.01685.x.

A large body of historical evidence describes the use of hallucinogenic compounds, such as psilocybin mushrooms, for religious purposes. But few scientific studies have attempted to measure or characterize hallucinogen-occasioned spiritual experiences. The present study examined the factor structure...

Social Involvement in Religious Institutions and God-Mediated Control Beliefs: A Longitudinal Investigation.

Journal for the scientific study of religion

Krause NM.
PMID: 21359114
J Sci Study Relig. 2007 Dec 07;46(4):519-537. doi: 10.1111/j.1468-5906.2007.00375.x.

This study examines the relationships among race, education, formal as well as informal involvement in the church, and God-mediated control. Formal involvement in the church was assessed by the frequency of attendance at worship services, Bible study groups, and...

Crafting Mosaics: Person-Centered Religious Influence and Selection in Adolescent Friendships.

Journal for the scientific study of religion

Adams J, Schaefer DR, Ettekal AV.
PMID: 32831393
J Sci Study Relig. 2020 Mar;59(1):39-61. doi: 10.1111/jssr.12638. Epub 2020 Jan 23.

This research addresses the intersection of two key domains of adolescents' lives: religion and peer networks. Religion scholars argue that religion is multi-faceted and better understood by focusing on combinations of indicators (i.e. mosaics), versus a variable-centered approach. We...

Religiosity and Premarital Sexual Behaviors among Adolescents: An Analysis of Functional Form.

Journal for the scientific study of religion

Hayward GM.
PMID: 31327874
J Sci Study Relig. 2019 Jun;58(2):439-458. doi: 10.1111/jssr.12588. Epub 2019 Feb 01.

While numerous studies show a persistent inverse association between religion variables and adolescents' sexual behaviors, the nature of this relationship is not well understood. Specifically, many previous studies presuppose that the associations between adolescent religiosity and sexual behaviors are...

Religiosity Reduces Sexual Aggression and Coercion in a Longitudinal Cohort of College Men: Mediating Roles of Peer Norms, Promiscuity, and Pornography.

Journal for the scientific study of religion

Hagen T, Thompson MP, Williams J.
PMID: 30349145
J Sci Study Relig. 2018 Mar;57(1):95-108. doi: 10.1111/jssr.12496. Epub 2018 May 25.

Extensive literature suggests that religiosity is a protective factor in reducing a number of deviant behaviors, including sexual aggression. Whereas previous research focused on the role of risky alcohol consumption in mediating the relationship between religiosity and sexual aggression,...

Religious Pathways from Adolescence to Adulthood.

Journal for the scientific study of religion

Lee BHJ, Pearce LD, Schorpp KM.
PMID: 29706663
J Sci Study Relig. 2017 Sep;56(3):678-689. doi: 10.1111/jssr.12367. Epub 2018 Mar 14.

Prior research suggests the significance of religion for development and wellbeing in adolescence and beyond. Further, new developments and applications of statistical methods have led to ways of better accounting for the multidimensional nature of religiosity (e.g. latent class...

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