Maternal and Family Correlates of Intrinsic Religiosity Profiles Among Low-Income Urban African American Adolescents.

ABSTRACT: National trends show that African American adolescents, relative to most other demographic groups, are more religious, and show fewer declines in religiosity, despite drastic decreases in religiosity among youth over the past 25 years. These broad findings are limiting because they fail to acknowledge religious heterogeneity among African American teens. Further, there are few empirical investigations of the transmission of religiosity within African American families. Building on a recent study that identified three distinctive profiles of intrinsic religiosity in a sample of low-income African American adolescents who were followed over four years (N = 326; Youth M_age = 12.1, SD = 1.6 years; 54% female), the present study examined contributions of maternal religiosity and fami

SUBMITTER: Kliewer W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6992483 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature