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Leslie Silva, Brigham Young University Hawaii, United StatesRonald Mellado Miller, Brigham Young University Hawaii, United States
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This study addresses the importance of substance abuse in regards to religiosity. Prior research (Hodge, Cardenas, & Montoya, 2001) indicates that both high spirituality and religious participation are predictors of low substance abuse. Other research in the past has shown that adolescents that scored high on the Alcohol Involvement scale tended to come from families that were not characterized as having a strong orientation to religion (McGue, Sharma, & Benson, 1996). For this study 5097 participants were analyzed utilizing data from the Relate Assessment, which analyzes factors that have impact on substance abuse. The results found that higher spiritual confirmation significantly predicted lower substance abuse while controlling for partner substance abuse, levels of commitment, religious orientation score, and happiness p<0.01, (adj r2=.26). to test if there is a difference between religiosity and gender, this study ran 2 (gender) x 10 (religion) factorial anova. results indicated significant among those that affiliate themselves with religion, their gender p<.001. tukey hsd found high frequency of practice intensity belief religious groups differed significantly from the others f(1,9)=4.31, p<.001, pb2=0.01. we conclude can predict low substance abuse, as well in levels variety groups.
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Conference: ACP2017Stream: Qualitative/Quantitative Research in any other area of Psychology
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