The Moral Community Divide: Underage Marijuana Use Across Religious Contexts
Compared to individual-level research on religion and marijuana use, much less research has been conducted to investigate how the overall religious context of a geographic location may influence marijuana use during adolescence and early adulthood. Using multilevel analyses on two waves of the Natio...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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[2019]
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| In: |
Journal for the scientific study of religion
Year: 2019, Volume: 58, Issue: 1, Pages: 153-173 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
USA
/ Youth (14-21 years) (13-18 Jahre)
/ Marihuana
/ Religiosity
/ Catholicism
/ Morals
/ Influence
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| IxTheo Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AE Psychology of religion AG Religious life; material religion NCC Social ethics |
| Further subjects: | B
Marijuana use
B Young adults B Religious Context B Adolescents |
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| Summary: | Compared to individual-level research on religion and marijuana use, much less research has been conducted to investigate how the overall religious context of a geographic location may influence marijuana use during adolescence and early adulthood. Using multilevel analyses on two waves of the National Study of Youth and Religion (NSYR) merged with county-level variables from the U.S. Census and the Religious Congregations and Membership Study (RCMS), this study finds that a county's higher Catholic population share is negatively associated with underage marijuana use frequency even after controlling for a wide range of individual and county-level variables. Besides being robust, the Catholic contextual effect on marijuana use is also diffusive, influencing both Catholic and non-Catholic youth who live in the same county. This study highlights the importance of viewing religious influence on substance use as a contextual, cultural force across different kinds of religious moral communities. |
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| ISSN: | 1468-5906 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal for the scientific study of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/jssr.12577 |
