Religious Context Matters: Exploring the Relationship Between Religious Context and Underage Alcohol Consumption
Previous research has demonstrated that individual religious beliefs and practices may reduce the likelihood of underage alcohol consumption, but less is known about how the overall religious cultural influence of a religion may influence individual alcohol consumption behaviors. Using multilevel an...
| Published in: | Review of religious research |
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| Authors: | ; ; |
| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Published: |
Springer
[2018]
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| In: |
Review of religious research
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
USA
/ Catholicism
/ Evangelical movement
/ Teenagers
/ Alcohol consumption
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| IxTheo Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy CH Christianity and Society KBQ North America KDB Roman Catholic Church KDG Free church |
| Further subjects: | B
Deviance
B Health B youth development B Religious Context B Culture |
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Volltext (Verlag) |
| Summary: | Previous research has demonstrated that individual religious beliefs and practices may reduce the likelihood of underage alcohol consumption, but less is known about how the overall religious cultural influence of a religion may influence individual alcohol consumption behaviors. Using multilevel analyses on two waves of the National Study of Youth and Religion merged with county-level variables from the U.S. Census and the Religious Congregations and Membership Study, we find that a county's higher Catholic population share leads to more frequent underage drunkenness even after controlling for a wide range of individual and county-level variables. Contrary to other studies' findings discovered at individual level, a greater population share of conservative Protestants is also linked with higher level of underage drunkenness. This study highlights the importance of viewing religious influence on health behaviors as a contextual, cultural force. |
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| ISSN: | 2211-4866 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Review of religious research
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s13644-017-0320-7 |