Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of South Carolina, 1305 Greene St., Columbia, SC 29208, United States.
J Adolesc. 2018 Feb;63:175-190. doi: 10.1016/j.adolescence.2017.12.015. Epub 2018 Jan 6.
Family processes, adolescent religious involvement, and self-control may serve as important mechanisms that mediate the relationship between parental religious involvement and delinquency. However, at present no study has systematically investigated the relationships among these factors and how these mediating mechanisms work. To address this gap, path analyses are conducted to test the hypothesized pathways whereby parental religious involvement operates to discourage delinquent behaviors of offspring. The study variables are taken from three waves of the study of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 and its descendent NLSY79 Child and Young Adults at two year intervals (2000, 2002, and 2004). 1020 American adolescents who are 10-14 years old in 2002 are selected for final analyses. The findings suggest that parental religious involvement does not affect adolescent delinquency four years later directly, but indirectly through its influence on adolescent religious involvement, parenting practices, inter-parental conflict, and their interactions with adolescent self-control.
家庭过程、青少年宗教参与和自我控制可以作为在父母宗教参与和犯罪行为之间起中介作用的重要机制。然而，目前还没有研究系统地调查这些因素之间的关系，以及这些中介机制是如何运作的。为了解决这一差距，本研究采用路径分析来检验假设的途径，即父母的宗教参与如何对子女的犯罪行为产生抑制作用。研究变量取自国家青年纵向调查 1979 及其后裔 NLSY79 儿童和青年成年人每隔两年的三次调查（2000、2002 和 2004 年）。从 2002 年 10 到 14 岁的 1020 名美国青少年被选入最终分析。研究结果表明，父母的宗教参与并不会直接影响四年后青少年的犯罪行为，而是通过对青少年宗教参与、养育方式、父母间冲突及其与青少年自我控制的相互作用的影响来间接影响。
