The relationship between religiosity and drug-use among adolescents

• Authors: Kovacs Laszlo
• Languages of publication: HU

Abstracts

EN

The aim of the research carried out on a representative sample in Romanian, Hungarian and German classes in Cluj/Kolozsvar among secondary school students (N= 1.047) was - on addition to the data collection referring to the epidemiology of smoking habits, alcohol and drug use to clarify the role of religiosity from the predictors of drug-use. The religious denomination, religious upbringing, public and private worship, religious self-esteem, as well as the INSPIRIT-scale (Index of Core Spiritual Experiences) were used to identify intrinsic religiosity. The measured low level of extrinsic religiosity led to higher proportion of drug-users. The findings suggest that among students with high level of intrinsic religiosity there is significantly lower level of drug-use.

Keywords

EN

ADOLESCENTS; CLUJ; DRUG-USE; EXTRENSIC RELIGIOSITY; INTRINSIC RELIGIOSITY; RELIGION

Discipline

• SOCIOLOGY: SOCIOLOGY

• Publisher: Hungarian Sociological Association
• Journal: Szociologiai Szemle (Sociological Review)
• Year: 2007
• Volume: 17
• Issue: 1-2
• Pages: 71-98
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Kovacs Laszlo

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

11HUAAAA092032