ArticleThe Journal of early adolescence2017
Adolescents' Religiousness and Substance Use Are Linked via Afterlife Beliefs and Future Orientation.
Article in The Journal of early adolescence, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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- Childhood predictors of belief in life after death across 22 countries.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Latinx Sexual Minority Adolescent Substance Use: State of the Science and Call for Intersectional Minority Stressors and Protective Factors.Current addiction reports · 2023Article
- Does Religious Participation Predict Future Expectations About Health? Using a Life Course Framework to Test Multiple Mechanisms.Journal of religion and health · 2022Article
- Religious service attendance typologies and African American substance use: a longitudinal study of the protective effects among young adult men and women.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2021Article
- The Observed Longitudinal Relationship between Future Orientation and Substance Use Among a Cohort of Youth with Serious Criminal Offenses.Substance use & misuse · 2018Article
- The "here and now" of youth: the meanings of smoking for sexual and gender minority youth.Harm reduction journal · 2018Article
- Why are Religiousness and Spirituality Associated with Externalizing Psychopathology? A Literature Review.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2016Review
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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 (mean age at Time 1 = 12 years) at three time points with approximately two 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.
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