TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2017//
TI  - Religiosity and adolescent marijuana use
JO  - Mental health, religion and culture
A1  - Varma, Malini
A1  - Moore, Lindsay S.
A1  - Cataldi, Jennifer S.
A1  - Estoup, Ashley C.
A1  - Stewart, David G.
SP  - 229
EP  - 238
VL  - 20
IS  - 3
N2  - Among adolescents, religiosity has been associated with lower rates of marijuana use, though few studies have examined its impact on the perceived risk of use. There is strong support that perceived risk of using marijuana is negatively correlated with the frequency of use. We examined the relationship among religiosity, perceived risk, and marijuana use from a national survey of adolescents that contained questions about lifetime, weekly, and past month substance use, social support, religious involvement and attitudes, and perceived riskiness of use. We tested a structural equation model of relationships among latent variables of religiosity and perceived risk, and an observed variable of total days of marijuana use in the past 12 months. <br><br>RESULTS indicated the model was a good fit to the data and described a mediating relationship of perceived risk of use between religiosity and marijuana use. Implications for leveraging religiosity in prevention of substance use are discussed.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1367-4676
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13674676.2017.1334045
ID  - ref1
ER  -