University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, Colorado Springs, USA.
J Relig Health. 1985 Sep;24(3):197-208. doi: 10.1007/BF01597313.
This research study of 13,878 youths indicates that religion is not by itself a very important predictor of youth substance use. It is, however, more strongly related to alcohol use than drug use. Also, fundamentalist religious groups have the lowest percentages of substance use in general, while the more liberal types of religious groups have the lowest percentages of heavy substance use. Of the six dimensions of religion used in the study to predict youth substance use, importance of religion to the subject was the most important, with church membership second, and the fundamentalism-liberalism scale of religious groups third.
这项对 13878 名青少年的研究表明，宗教本身并不是预测青少年物质使用的一个非常重要的因素。然而，它与酒精使用的关系比与毒品使用的关系更为密切。此外，原教旨主义宗教团体的物质使用总体比例最低，而宗教团体中更为自由的类型的物质使用比例最低。在研究中，有六个维度的宗教被用来预测青少年的物质使用，其中宗教对主体的重要性是最重要的，其次是教会成员身份，宗教团体的原教旨主义-自由主义量表则排在第三位。
