scholarly journals Are Religious Teens Nice Kids? Faith and Congeniality among American Adolescents

Religions ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 328
Author(s):  
Kristi Fondren ◽  
John Bartkowski ◽  
Xiaohe Xu ◽  
Martin Levin
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Add Health ◽  
Religious Involvement ◽  
Social Competencies ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
National Longitudinal Study ◽  
The Social ◽  
Interviewer Ratings ◽  
Post Hoc ◽  
Interpersonal Warmth

One body of extant research has documented the social contours and positive effects of teen religiosity, while another has explored the religious sources of social congeniality (“niceness”) among adult Americans. This study integrates these parallel bodies of scholarship by examining the religious bases of niceness among American teens. Using post-hoc interviewer ratings from wave 1 of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health), we examine the degree to which religious teens are perceived more positively than their nonreligious peers. Associations linked to six dimensions of teen religiosity are considered. Select facets of teen religiosity are associated with more positive interviewer ratings, particularly for interpersonal warmth, thereby providing modest support for hypothesized patterns. Findings are interpreted in light of current theories of religious involvement, interpersonal dispositions, and social competencies.

Food Insecurity Among Formerly Incarcerated Adults

2019 ◽  
Vol 46 (10) ◽  
pp. 1493-1511 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Testa ◽  
Dylan B. Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Food Insecurity ◽  
Household Income ◽  
Add Health ◽  
Adult Health ◽  
Future Health ◽  
Formerly Incarcerated ◽  
National Longitudinal Study ◽  
History Of ◽  
Formerly Incarcerated Persons

The purpose of this study is to further the understanding of the hardships faced by formerly incarcerated individuals by investigating the association between prior incarceration and postrelease food insecurity. Drawing on data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health), our findings demonstrate that a history of incarceration is associated with an increased likelihood of experiencing food insecurity. This association is found to partially operate through household income, depressive symptoms, marital status, and social isolation. Given the importance of food insecurity in predicting future health outcomes and nutritional behavior, food insecurity may be an important factor in driving health disparities among formerly incarcerated persons.

scholarly journals College-going and Trajectories of Drinking from Adolescence into Adulthood

2017 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 252-269 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Crosnoe ◽  
Sarah Kendig ◽  
Aprile Benner
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Add Health ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Peer Norms ◽  
Problematic Drinking ◽  
Growth Curve Models ◽  
National Longitudinal Study ◽  
College Going ◽  
College Transitions

To explore an exception to the association between educational attainment and health, this study unpacked variability in the drinking of U.S. college students by applying life course concepts to analyses of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health). Growth curve models showed that youth who graduated from four-year colleges before turning 25 without later reentering higher education had the highest peaks in drinking after adolescence and the shallowest declines into their 30s. Deviations from this pathway in terms of type, timing, and order of college transitions flattened out drinking trajectories from adolescence into adulthood. Expectations that more alignment between precollege and college social contexts (defined by family backgrounds, high school academic performance, and peer norms) would predict the most problematic drinking trajectories among young four-year college-goers were not supported. Instead, youth who appeared headed for the early four-year college pathway but did not make it there had problematic drinking trajectories.

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