Kliewer Wendy, Washington-Nortey Melissa, Salifu Yendork Joana, Sosnowski David W, Wright Anna W, McGuire Kristina
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA.
University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana.
J Youth Adolesc. 2020 Jan;49(1):323-334. doi: 10.1007/s10964-019-01095-y. Epub 2019 Aug 6.
National trends show that African American adolescents, relative to most other demographic groups, are more religious, and show fewer declines in religiosity, despite drastic decreases in religiosity among youth over the past 25 years. These broad findings are limiting because they fail to acknowledge religious heterogeneity among African American teens. Further, there are few empirical investigations of the transmission of religiosity within African American families. Building on a recent study that identified three distinctive profiles of intrinsic religiosity in a sample of low-income African American adolescents who were followed over four years (N = 326; Youth M = 12.1, SD = 1.6 years; 54% female), the present study examined contributions of maternal religiosity and family emotional climate in distinguishing these profiles. Univariate analyses revealed that maternal religious attendance and commitment, adolescents' felt acceptance from mothers and the emotional climate in the home differentiated youth who retained high levels of intrinsic religiosity (41%) from youth who declined in religiosity (37%) or who had low levels of religiosity (22%). Multivariate analyses showed that after accounting for demographic covariates, felt acceptance from mothers differentiated adolescents with high versus low levels of religiosity; both maternal religious attendance and felt acceptance from mothers distinguished adolescents who retained high levels of religiosity from youth who declined in religiosity. Implications for family dynamics in African American adolescent religious development and well-being are discussed.
全国趋势表明，与大多数其他人口群体相比，非裔美国青少年更虔诚，而且尽管在过去25年里青少年的宗教虔诚度大幅下降，但他们的宗教虔诚度下降得更少。这些宽泛的研究结果存在局限性，因为它们没有认识到非裔美国青少年中的宗教异质性。此外，关于非裔美国家庭中宗教虔诚度传承的实证研究很少。基于最近一项对326名低收入非裔美国青少年（青少年平均年龄M = 12.1岁，标准差SD = 1.6岁；54%为女性）进行了四年跟踪调查的研究，该研究确定了三种不同的内在宗教虔诚度特征，本研究考察了母亲的宗教虔诚度和家庭情感氛围在区分这些特征方面的作用。单变量分析显示，母亲的宗教参与度和宗教信仰、青少年感受到的来自母亲的接纳以及家庭中的情感氛围，将保持高内在宗教虔诚度的青少年（41%）与宗教虔诚度下降的青少年（37%）或宗教虔诚度较低的青少年（22%）区分开来。多变量分析表明，在考虑了人口统计学协变量后，感受到的来自母亲的接纳区分了宗教虔诚度高与低的青少年；母亲的宗教参与度和感受到的来自母亲的接纳都将保持高宗教虔诚度的青少年与宗教虔诚度下降的青少年区分开来。本文讨论了这些结果对非裔美国青少年宗教发展和幸福的家庭动态的影响。
