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Title: A Model of Religious Involvement, Family Processes, Self-Control, and Juvenile Delinquency in Two-Parent Families
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1. Guo, Siying
A Model of Religious Involvement, Family Processes, Self-Control, and Juvenile Delinquency in Two-Parent Families
Journal of Adolescence 63 (February 2018): 175-190.
Also: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140197117302154
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79, NLSY79 Young Adult
Publisher: Elsevier
Keyword(s): Adolescent Behavior; Delinquency/Gang Activity; Family Process Measures; Parental Influences; Parenting Skills/Styles; Religious Influences; Self-Control/Self-Regulation

Family processes, adolescent religious involvement, and self-control may serve as important mechanisms that mediate the relationship between parental religious involvement and delinquency. However, at present no study has systematically investigated the relationships among these factors and how these mediating mechanisms work. To address this gap, path analyses are conducted to test the hypothesized pathways whereby parental religious involvement operates to discourage delinquent behaviors of offspring. The study variables are taken from three waves of the study of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 and its descendent NLSY79 Child and Young Adults at two year intervals (2000, 2002, and 2004). 1020 American adolescents who are 10-14 years old in 2002 are selected for final analyses. The findings suggest that parental religious involvement does not affect adolescent delinquency four years later directly, but indirectly through its influence on adolescent religious involvement, parenting practices, inter-parental conflict, and their interactions with adolescent self-control.
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Guo, Siying. "A Model of Religious Involvement, Family Processes, Self-Control, and Juvenile Delinquency in Two-Parent Families." Journal of Adolescence 63 (February 2018): 175-190.