Religiosity and the earliest stages of adolescent drug involvement in seven countries of Latin America
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To investigate the role of religiosity in the earliest stages of drug involvement, the authors studied recent-onset occurrence of first chances to try a drug and first actual drug use, expressed as a function of religious practice behaviors, levels of religious devotion, and religious affiliation. Based upon standardized questionnaire assessments of nationally representative samples of school-attending youths drawn in Panama, the five Spanish heritage countries of Central America, and the Dominican Republic (n = 12,797), the 1999-2000 study estimates indicate that higher levels of religious practice are inversely associated with the earliest stages of tobacco and cannabis experiences (i.e., the first chance to try and the first actual use) but not so for alcohol. To illustrate, for each unit increase in levels of religious practice behaviors, there was an associated reduced occurrence of the first chance to try tobacco (odds ratio = 0.76, 95% confidence interval: 0.62, 0.94). Occurrence of first actual use of tobacco and cannabis was not associated with levels of religious practice behaviors among youths exposed to the opportunity to try these drugs. As such, these behaviors apparently have not strengthened resistance. Rather, autarcesis may be at work, functioning to shield youths from drug exposure opportunities.
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Religious affiliation may have multiple paths of influence upon drug involvement, including the possibility that religious activities occupy leisure time and tend to surround an individual with non-using peers.
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- Authors
- Chen, C.-Y., Dormitzer, C. M., Bejarano, J., & Anthony, J. C.
- Affiliations
- Johns Hopkins University (US)
- Venue
- American Journal of Epidemiology
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2004-06-10
- Volume
- 159
- Issue
- 12
- Pages
- 1180-1188
- ISSN
- 0002-9262 (ISSN-L)
- 1476-6256
- OpenAlex
- W2162194260
- Cited by
- 123
- References
- 37
- Citations by year
- 2024: 1 · 2023: 41 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 2 · 2018: 5 · 2017: 1 · 2016: 5 · 2015: 4 · 2014: 9 · 2013: 6 · 2012: 9
- FWCI
- 4.29
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- American Journal of Epidemiology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health (5r01da010502-02)
- National Institute on Drug Abuse (K05DA015799, F32 DA14757, R01 DA10502, T32DA007292)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
- Social Sciences › Health › Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology
- Social Sciences › Demography › Youth, Drugs, and Violence
- Keywords
- religiosity, adolescent drug use, religious practice, religious devotion, religious affiliation, tobacco use, cannabis use, alcohol consumption, drug resistance, Latin America
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Adolescent Behavior, Cultural Characteristics, Data Collection, Female, Humans, Latin America, Male, Religion, Smoking, Epidemiologic Studies, Substance-Related Disorders
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