Citation

Kathol N, Sgoutas-Emch S. J. Relig. Health 2016; 56(2): 437-449.

Affiliation

Department of Psychological Sciences, University of San Diego, 5998 Alcala Park, San Diego, CA, 92110, USA. emch@sandiego.edu.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2016, Academy of Religion and Mental Health, Publisher Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1007/s10943-016-0210-2

PMID

26932553

Abstract

Developing interventions to address the problem of college drinking requires the identification of contributing factors to drinking behavior. It is believed that religion and spirituality (R/S) play a role, but the mechanism is unclear. Using a multi-dimensional R/S measure, an alcohol behavior inventory, and a religious affiliation proscription question, this study was designed to dive deeper into this connection. This study found that religious singing/chanting and reading sacred text were the best predictors of lower alcohol consumption. Furthermore, participants who perceive their religious tradition to be proscriptive reported less alcohol consumption and higher religious/spiritual profiles.

Language: en