Crafting Mosaics: Person-Centered Religious Influence and Selection in Adolescent Friendships.

ABSTRACT: This research addresses the intersection of two key domains of adolescents' lives: religion and peer networks. Religion scholars argue that religion is multi-faceted and better understood by focusing on combinations of indicators (i.e. mosaics), versus a variable-centered approach. We adopt this framework and investigate the interplay between religion and peer networks, both in how religious mosaics are shaped by friends and how religious profiles affect friend selection dynamics. With data from two schools in the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, we estimate religious mosaics using latent class analysis (LCA) to identify profiles consisting of combinations of commonly available survey-based measures of religious attitudes, behaviors, and identities. Finding evidence of the

SUBMITTER: Adams J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7430555 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature