| Summary: | 碩士 === 南華大學 === 教育社會學研究所 === 88 === Abstract
Religion was an important social mechanism. For adolescence, while facing physiology and psychology’s rapid development and exploratory environment, they deeply relied on the spirit support in this chaotic period. Therefore, the religion played a significant role for the development of adolescent behavior.
Because of few systematic and quantitative researches of religious effect on adolescent behavior in Taiwan, a religious model was presented in this paper in order to find out what religious variables could limit the occurrence of adolescent delinquency. In addition, this study developed varied religious variables based on criminological and religious theories. The study used the technique of self-report questionnaire survey to collect data that included students from five junior high schools and five senior high schools in Taichung. There were 1,256 students who completely filled the questionnaires. The nested regression model was employed to test effects of religious variables on adolescent delinquency. The model consisted of the social control function of religion, releasing anxiety of religious function, learning function of religion, as well as individual characteristics
The findings of this paper included: (1) Young Taoists, Buddhists, and Christian were less likely to commit delinquency. Young Taoists were also more likely to have strong beliefs of anti-deviant behavior. (2) Adolescents who had strong religious attitudes were less likely to engage in delinquency and have high beliefs of anti-deviant behavior. (3) Participation of religious activities had a positive relation with the occurrence of adolescent delinquency. (4) Adolescents who had low religious commitment were more likely to engage in deviant behavior. (5) Adolescents who had high religious ideal were less likely to commit delinquency. (6) Finally, the results showed that the releasing anxiety of religious function had a positive relation with engaging in delinquency and a negative relation with beliefs of anti-deviant behavior.
Key words : Religion, Adolescent Delinquency, Deviant Behavior
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