Finding

 


This finding looks at the relationship between mothers' and offsprings' religiosity and adolescents' well-being.

Adolescents whose mothers attended church more frequently and assigned higher levels of importance to religion in their lives were less likely to experience major depression than peers whose mothers reported lower levels of religiosity.


Sample or Data Description
10-year follow-up survey: 60 mothers and 151 offspring


Source
"Religiosity and Depression: Ten-Year Follow-Up of Depressed Mothers and Offspring"
Miller, Lisa
Warner, Virginia, Wickramaratne, Priya, and Weissman, Myrna
Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Vol. 36, Number 10. October, 1997. Page(s) 1416-1425.


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