Title

Substance Use Coping As A Mediator Of The Relationship Between Trauma Symptoms And Substance Use Consequences Among Incarcerated Females With Childhood Sexual Abuse Histories

Keywords

Adolescence; Religiosity; Substance use

Abstract

Prior research indicates that religiosity is associated with lower levels of substance use in adolescence. The extant research, however, is limited by issues related to data quality and analytic strategy. The current research uses the National Survey on Drug Use and Health to further our understanding of the nature of the relationship between religiosity and substance use during adolescence. Results show that religiosity reduces the odds of tobacco use, heavy drinking, prescription drug misuse, marijuana use, and other illicit drug use. These associations are partially explained by respondent and peer attitudes toward substance use and, to a lesser extent, respondent psychological well-being. The influence of respondent substance use attitude is especially pronounced, explaining between 41% (marijuana) and 53% (tobacco) of the association between religiosity and substance use. In fully adjusted models, all mediators account for between 46% (marijuana) and 59% (tobacco) of the association between religiosity and substance use. © 2012 Informa Healthcare USA, Inc.

Publication Date

6-1-2012

Publication Title

Substance Use and Misuse

Volume

47

Issue

7

Number of Pages

799-808

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.3109/10826084.2012.669446

Socpus ID

84860463842 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84860463842

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