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- Title
More than Enjoying the Sunset: Conceptualization and Measurement of Religiosity for Adolescents and Emerging Adults and its Implications for Developmental Inquiry.
- Authors
DeHaan, Laura G.; Yonker, Julie E.; Affholter, Carolyn
- Abstract
Although religious belief is common among most American adolescents and emerging adults (individuals between 18 and 29), studies examining the effects of religious beliefs on this population are limited. Studies rarely pose the question whether spirituality and religiosity (S/R) influence normative development, or whether development influences S/R. Studies of religious belief are also characterized by limitations in conceptualization, methodology and operational definition. To further understand how S/R has been studied in these developmental periods, we analyzed all identified empirical studies from 1990 to 2010 that focused on adolescents and emerging adults, in which some aspect of religion, spirituality and/or faith was an identified variable. Studies were examined in terms of conceptual and operational definition, and methodological strategy. Our analyses indicated a wide variety of strategies on how religiosity was conceptualized and measured, as well as a low level of congruity conceptualization of S/R and how these concepts were actually measured. Little research examined important developmental transitions, and few studies were longitudinal. Suggestions for improving research on adolescents and emerging adults are discussed within a developmental framework.
- Subjects
RELIGIOUSNESS; TEENAGERS &; religion; BELIEF &; doubt; SPIRITUALITY; FAITH; ADOLESCENCE
- Publication
Journal of Psychology & Christianity, 2011, Vol 30, Issue 3, p184
- ISSN
0733-4273
- Publication type
Article