Halstead Isaac, Heron Jon, Joinson Carol
The Centre for Academic Child Health, Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 2BN, UK.
Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 2BN, UK.
J Relig Health. 2025 Apr 6. doi: 10.1007/s10943-025-02299-2.
Adolescent substance use can have a significant negative impact on life trajectories. Therefore, identifying factors associated with adolescent substance use is important. Previous research has identified parental religiosity as a factor associated with lower adolescent substance use. However, these studies suffered from a number of limitations and are often focussed on US samples, which limit the generalisability of their findings. The present study used a large UK-based longitudinal cohort study (n = 8041) and latent classes of parental religious belief at age 9 to examine the association with offspring adolescent substance use at age 18, while controlling for a range of confounders. We found evidence that suggests, when compared to offspring of agnostic mothers, having a highly religious or atheist mother is associated with lower odds of offspring weekly smoking (OR 0.68 [0.45, 1.02] and OR 0.74 [0.53, 1.04] respectively), and having an atheist mother is associated with greater odds of cannabis (OR 1.32 [1.05, 1.66]) and other drugs use (OR 1.41 [1.02, 1.95]). Our findings suggest that parental beliefs can have an impact on adolescent outcomes, and these associations may be generalisable to non-US contexts.
青少年物质使用会对人生轨迹产生重大负面影响。因此，识别与青少年物质使用相关的因素很重要。以往研究已将父母的宗教信仰确定为与青少年较低物质使用相关的一个因素。然而，这些研究存在一些局限性，且往往聚焦于美国样本，这限制了其研究结果的普遍性。本研究采用了一项基于英国的大型纵向队列研究（n = 8041），并以9岁时父母的宗教信仰潜在类别来考察与18岁后代青少年物质使用之间的关联，同时控制一系列混杂因素。我们发现有证据表明，与不可知论母亲的后代相比，有高度宗教信仰或无神论母亲的后代每周吸烟的几率较低（分别为优势比0.68 [0.45, 1.02] 和优势比0.74 [0.53, 1.04]），而有一位无神论母亲与大麻使用（优势比1.32 [1.05, 1.66]）和其他毒品使用（优势比1.41 [1.02, 1.95]）的几率较高有关。我们的研究结果表明，父母的信仰会对青少年的结果产生影响，并且这些关联可能适用于非美国背景。
