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- Title
THE ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN RELIGION AND DELINQUENCY IN A NATIONAL LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF ADOLESCENT HEALTH WHAT ROLE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS?
- Authors
Elshani, Valeza Ukaj
- Abstract
The overall purpose of this research quantitative paper is to examine the prospective association between religion and delinquency among adolescents using the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health). Add Health is a longitudinal study of a nationally representative sample among adolescents in grades 7 to 12 in the United States during 1994 to 2018 period of years. The sample collected social, environmental, behavioral and other social factors in order to track the emergence of various conditions as they move to further ages of life. It combines longitudinal survey data on respondents' social, economic, psychological and physical well-being with contextual data on the family, neighborhood, community, school, friendships, and peer groups providing unique opportunities to study how social environments and behaviors in adolescence are linked to health and achievement outcomes in young adulthood. The Add Health data on this research paper was used to assess the prospective associations between religion at one point of time and delinquency at a later point of time among adolescents and young adults aged 12 to 18 years old who were participants on the Add Health study throughout twenty four years period or study. The final results of this research paper are that, religion is associated with a decrease risk of delinquency. After controlling for other risk factors such as age 12 to 18 years old and gender among male and female, religion was still significant, and was associated with a low level of delinquency. However, when controlling for other risk factors including alcohol drinking, religion was not significantly associated with delinquency and it diminished the effect of religiosity. The overall findings suggest that the more religious teens are the less likely they are to engage in delinquent activities. The present research study providing such findings indicate that religious teens are less likely to be engaged in delinquent activities, and when controlling for other risk factors including alcohol drinking it did not find any significance related to delinquency. The implications of those findings for future investigations are discussed when controlling for alcohol drinking. Implications include that further research might test the mediating effect of high risk drinking with religion and delinquency, including whether religiosity is related to delinquency because of the mediating effect of high risk drinking or whether religiosity is linked to drinking because of the mediating effect of delinquency. Finally, the paper analysis the impact of viewing the issue of delinquency and religion from the perspective of human rights norms.
- Subjects
JUVENILE delinquency; ADOLESCENT health; RELIGIOUSNESS; LONGITUDINAL method; RELIGION
- Publication
Knowledge: International Journal, 2020, Vol 38, Issue 5, p1067
- ISSN
2545-4439
- Publication type
Article