Are Adolescent Religious Attendance/Spirituality Associated with Family Characteristics?

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61989592%3A15260%2F19%3A73597376" target="_blank" >RIV/61989592:15260/19:73597376 - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/61989592:15510/19:73597376

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/16/16/2947/htm" target="_blank" >https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/16/16/2947/htm</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16162947" target="_blank" >10.3390/ijerph16162947</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Are Adolescent Religious Attendance/Spirituality Associated with Family Characteristics?

Original language description

The family environment is associated with religiosity and spirituality as well as many aspects of adolescent lives, including their health behaviour. Therefore, the aim of this study was to assess family environment associations with adolescent religious attendance (RA), i.e., weekly participation in religious services, and spirituality in a highly secular country. A nationally representative sample (n = 4182, 14.4 +/- 1.1 years, 48.6% boys) of Czech adolescents participated in the 2014 Health Behaviour in School-aged Children cross-sectional study. RA, spirituality and the family environment, i.e., family communication, perceived emotional support, and parental monitoring, were measured. Higher adolescent RA was associated with lower self-reported easiness of communication with mother (odds ratio (OR) = 0.68; 99% confidence interval (99% CI) = 0.47-0.99; p &lt; 0.01). In contrast, spiritual respondents were more likely to report both easier communication with their father (OR per standard deviation (SD) change = 1.12, 99% CI 1.02-1.23; p &lt; 0.01) and mother (OR per SD change = 1.38 (1.23-1.55); p &lt; 0.001) and higher perceived emotional support (OR per SD change = 1.73 (1.55-1.92); p &lt; 0.001). Parents of respondents who attended religious services at least once a week, as well as parents of spiritual respondents, were generally more likely to monitor adolescent behaviour. Thus, this study provides information for parents, mental health workers, and pastoral carers. Further research should assess the association of a lower easiness of family communication with dissonances in adolescent-parent religiosity/spirituality and with higher parental monitoring.

Czech name

—

Czech description

—

Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

—

OECD FORD branch

30304 - Public and environmental health

Project

Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2019

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

ISSN

1661-7827

e-ISSN

—

Volume of the periodical

16

Issue of the periodical within the volume

16

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

16

Pages from-to

—

UT code for WoS article

000484419000109

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85071523199