Religious Activity and Risk Behavior Among African American Adolescents: Concurrent and Developmental Effects
dc.contributor.author | Steinman, Kenneth J. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Zimmerman, Marc A. | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2006-09-11T14:14:29Z | |
dc.date.available | 2006-09-11T14:14:29Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2004-06 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Steinman, Kenneth J.; Zimmerman, Marc A.; (2004). "Religious Activity and Risk Behavior Among African American Adolescents: Concurrent and Developmental Effects." American Journal of Community Psychology 33 (3-4): 151-161. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/44069> | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 0091-0562 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1573-2770 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/44069 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=retrieve&db=pubmed&list_uids=15212175&dopt=citation | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | This study examines how religious activity is associated with risk behaviors, concurrently and developmentally among urban African American adolescents. Seven hundred and five African American youths were interviewed annually during high school. Retention rates for the study exceeded 90%. Frequency of religious activity, sexual intercourse, and alcohol, cigarette, and marijuana use were assessed at each wave. Growth curve analyses found negative concurrent associations between religious activity and each of the four risk behaviors. The developmental effects of religious activity varied by gender. Higher levels of religious activity in 9th grade predicted smaller increases in marijuana use among males and cigarette use among females. In addition, larger decreases in religious activity during high school were associated with greater increases in alcohol use among males and sexual intercourse among females. During high school, religious activity limits the development of certain types of risk behavior among African American youth, even after controlling for reciprocal effects. | en_US |
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dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.format.mimetype | text/plain | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | |
dc.publisher | Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Public Health/Gesundheitswesen | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Religion | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Community & Environmental Psychology | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Psychology | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Clinical Psychology | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Health Psychology | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Social Psychology | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Adolescent Development | en_US |
dc.subject.other | African Americans | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Gender Differences | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Sexual Intercourse | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Substance Use | en_US |
dc.title | Religious Activity and Risk Behavior Among African American Adolescents: Concurrent and Developmental Effects | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Public Health | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Psychiatry | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Social Work | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Psychology | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Health Sciences | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Social Sciences | en_US |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Peer Reviewed | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, Michigan | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationother | Division of Health Behavior and Health Promotion, The Ohio State University School of Public Health, Columbus, Ohio | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationumcampus | Ann Arbor | en_US |
dc.identifier.pmid | 15212175 | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/44069/1/10464_2004_Article_485689.pdf | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/B:AJCP.0000027002.93526.bb | en_US |
dc.identifier.source | American Journal of Community Psychology | en_US |
dc.owningcollname | Interdisciplinary and Peer-Reviewed |
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