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Landor, Antoinette; Simons, Leslie Gordon; Simons, Ronald L.; Brody, Gene H.; Gibbons, Frederick X. – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2011
Research has documented a negative relationship between religion and risky sexual behavior. Few studies, however, have examined the processes whereby religion exerts this effect. The present study develops and tests a model of various mechanisms whereby parental religiosity reduces the likelihood of adolescents' participation in risky sexual…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Structural Equation Models, Religion, Adolescents
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Brody, Gene H.; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1996
Tested a model linking parental formal religiosity to early adolescents' academic competence and socioemotional adjustment. Found that greater parental religiosity led to more cohesive family relationships, less interparental conflict, and fewer externalizing and internalizing problems in adolescents. Found that religiosity indirectly influenced…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescent Development, Adolescents