Religion is widely understood to play an essential role in young peoples behaviors, making it a significant factor the discourse on youth health-promoting behaviors. Perhaps, there isa growing indication that people are less likely engage The present study examined of religious commitment health-seeking behaviors southeast Nigeria. Three hundred and nineteen respondents randomly selected from t...

That men are less religious than women is a generalization that holds around the world and across the centuries. However, there has been virtually no study of this phenomenon because it has seemed so obvious that it is the result of differential sex role socialization. Unfortunately, actual attempts to isolate socialization effects on gender differences in religiousness have failed, as have far...

OBJECTIVES This analysis presents the prevalence of substance use among young adolescents. The extent to which factors such as peer behaviour, parenting practices and school commitment and achievement are associated with drinking to intoxication and other drug use is investigated. DATA SOURCE The data are from the 1998/99 National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth. Analysis is based o...

I provide an empirical assessment of the religious commitments of gays, lesbians, and bisexuals in the United States. I compare the religiosity of gay men and lesbians and bisexuals to each other and to male and female heterosexuals, while controlling for a host of sociodemographic factors that may contribute to differences across the gender/sexuality groups. To accomplish this, I examine data ...

<p class="06IsiAbstrak"><span lang="EN-GB">Religious moderation manifests an attitude that is not excessive, neutral, and in a middle position. Religious crucial multi-ethnic, multi-cultural, multi-religious society like Indonesia. This study aims to reveal how indicators of religious are displayed compulsory social science textbooks Indonesia—using critical discourse analysis analy...

INTRODUCTION Churches occupy an important social and cultural position in Madagascar. The sexual transmission of HIV raises controversies about the role that Churches can play in preventing HIV/AIDS. This cross-sectional survey investigated recommendations by religious leaders for condom use and other preventive strategies in the context of international guidelines. METHODS A questionnaire wa...

Introduction: Marital satisfaction is a positive relationship with spouse’s family, positive dynamism in the original family, self-esteem and religious homogeneity of couples. Religion is one of the most effective spiritual fulcrums that are able to provide the meaning of life in every moment of life. Religious beliefs and credence are important factors in marital satisfaction. The main p...