title: Institutional and personal spirituality/religiosity and psychosocial adjustment in adolescence: concurrent and longitudinal associations.
abstract: Spirituality/religiosity is hypothesized to promote positive adjustment among adolescents. The goals of this study were to assess the unique and joint associations between two dimensions of spirituality/religiosity--institutional and personal--and a range of domains of psychosocial adjustment (intrapersonal well-being, quality of parent-child relationship, substance use, and academic orientation) and to evaluate the direction of effects in these associations. Participants included 803 predominately Canadian-born adolescents (53 % female) from Ontario, Canada, who completed a survey in grade 11 and grade 12. At the concurrent level, higher personal spirituality/religiosity consistently and uniquely predicted more positive adjustment in terms of well-being, parental relationship, and academic orientation. Higher institutional spirituality/religiosity uniquely and consistently predicted lower substance use, particularly when personal spirituality/religiosity also was high. With regard to the direction of effects (i.e., longitudinal associations), institutional spirituality/religiosity predicted lower future substance use. The results imply that the personal and institutional dimensions of spirituality/religiosity may be associated differentially with psychosocial adjustment, and it may be only in the domain of substance use that spirituality/religiosity predicts change in behavior over time.
authors: Department of Psychology, Brock University, 500 Glenridge Ave, Saint Catharines, ON, L2S 3A1, Canada, marie.good@gmail.com.
authors: Marie
authors: M
authors: Good
authors: Teena
authors: T
authors: Willoughby
mesh_terms: D000124:Achievement; D000293:Adolescent; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D008960:Models, Psychological; D035863:Moral Development; D009864:Ontario; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D016487:Parenting / Q000523:psychology; D012069:Religion and Psychology; D012309:Risk-Taking; D012649:Self Concept; D012917:Social Adjustment; D012933:Social Identification; D029181:Spirituality; D013223:Statistics as Topic; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000523:psychology
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