Religion is associated with a wide range of socially desirable behaviors and outcomes
(particularly among adolescents), including lower rates of crime and delinquency, better …

The fields of personality and social psychology, with their focus on individual differences and
human communalities, have much to offer the study of religious and spiritual development in …

Prior research has demonstrated that religiousness is associated with and potentially
facilitative of self-regulation, though most of the research has been cross-sectional. The …

Loneliness and antisocial behavior were predicted from religiosity and positive religious
coping in this 1-year longitudinal study of 564 16-year-old Indonesian Muslim adolescents …

Three-year longitudinal and concurrent associations of leadership with overt aggression,
exclusion of others, effortful control (EC), popularity, unpopularity, prosocial behavior, and …

Religious adolescents are less likely than their peers to use alcohol but there is limited
understanding of the mechanisms that explain this association. The possibility that …

A growing body of literature suggests that religiosity is linked to regulatory virtues, such as
self-control and patience, but most of this literature has been on Christian populations and …

Religiosity has been associated with positive psychological adjustment during emerging
adulthood. However, the unique effects of specific dimensions of religiosity on emerging …

Almost all research pertaining to adolescent romance has come from Western countries. As
pointed out by Collins (2003), it is important to understand the influence of culture on …

Early adolescence is thought to represent a window of vulnerability when exposure to
substances is particularly harmful, partly because the neurotoxic effects of adolescent …