In-home firearm access among US adolescents and the role of religious subculture: Results from a nationally representative study |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Sociology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, United States;2. Department of Sociology, Seattle Pacific University, Seattle, WA, United States;3. Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States;1. The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA;2. Department of Radiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA;3. Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA;4. The Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA;1. Faculty of Medicine of Porto University, Department of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences, Alameda Professor Hernâni Monteiro, 4200-319, Porto, Portugal;2. Faculty of Law of Catholic University of Portugal, Rua Diogo Botelho, 1327, 4160-005, Porto, Portugal;3. National Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences, Department of Pathology – North Branch, Jardim Carrilho Videira, 4050-167, Porto, Portugal;4. School of Health Sciences of Minho University, Campus Gualtar, 4710-057, Braga, Portugal;5. Center of Forensic Sciences, National Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences, Largo da Sé Nova, 3000-213, Coimbra, Portugal;6. EPIUnit – Institute of Public Health, University of Porto, Rua das Taipas, 135, 4050-600, Porto, Portugal |
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| Abstract: | Religious participation is linked to numerous positive safety outcomes for adolescents. Scant attention, however, has been paid to associations between religious participation and safety risks among adolescents. Using data from Add Health (N = 18,449), a nationally representative school-based sample of US adolescents, this study examines the relationship between adolescents' religious affiliation and easy access to firearms at home. Regression analyses adjust for complex sampling design and compare easy firearm access at home among conservative Protestant adolescents to adolescent firearm access in other religious traditions. Conservative Protestant adolescents have a substantially greater likelihood of easy access to a gun at home compared to adolescents of all other major religious traditions in the United States. Recognizing differences in adolescent firearm access between subcultural groups can help public health interventions more effectively identify and address the needs of vulnerable populations. The paper's conclusion considers suggestions for effective policy and programmatic initiatives. |
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| Keywords: | Add Health"} {"#name":"keyword" "$":{"id":"kwrd0015"} "$$":[{"#name":"text" "_":"National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health |
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