Table 1.
Sample characteristics by religious attendance and importance of faith.
| Number | % | Religious Attendance | p-Value | Importance of Faith | p-Value | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Attending | Non-Attending | Important | Non-Important | |||||||||
| Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | |||||
| Gender | n.s. | n.s. | ||||||||||
| Boys | 6808 | 50.9 | 371 | 51.1 | 5817 | 50.7 | 1079 | 49.7 | 5100 | 50.9 | ||
| Girls | 6569 | 49.1 | 355 | 48.9 | 5661 | 49.3 | 1091 | 50.3 | 4921 | 49.1 | ||
| Age | p < 0.05 | p < 0.001 | ||||||||||
| 11 years old (5th grade) | 4380 | 32.7 | 254 | 35.0 | 3491 | 30.4 | 851 | 39.2 | 2895 | 28.9 | ||
| 13 years old (7th grade) | 4654 | 34.8 | 245 | 33.7 | 4068 | 35.4 | 715 | 32.9 | 3593 | 35.9 | ||
| 15 years old (9th grade) | 4343 | 32.5 | 227 | 31.3 | 3919 | 34.1 | 604 | 27.8 | 3533 | 35.3 | ||
| Health-risk behavior a | ||||||||||||
| Smoking | 637 | 4.8 | 28 | 3.9 | 553 | 4.9 | n.s. | 100 | 4.6 | 484 | 4.9 | n.s. |
| Drinking | 1116 | 8.5 | 73 | 10.2 | 969 | 8.6 | n.s. | 172 | 8.0 | 873 | 8.9 | n.s. |
| Recent cannabis use (9th grade only) | 136 | 3.2 | 10 | 4.4 | 121 | 3.1 | n.s. | 14 | 2.3 | 115 | 3.3 | n.s. |
| Early sexual intercourse (9th grade only) | 855 | 20.3 | 40 | 17.9 | 794 | 20.6 | n.s. | 119 | 20.1 | 711 | 20.4 | n.s. |
| Parental religiosity | ||||||||||||
| Mother’s church attendance | 722 | 6.0 | 581 | 82.1 | 131 | 1.2 | p < 0.001 | 498 | 23.5 | 211 | 2.1 | p < 0.001 |
| Father’s church attendance | 626 | 5.2 | 488 | 69.7 | 127 | 1.1 | p < 0.001 | 438 | 20.8 | 177 | 1.8 | p < 0.001 |
| Mother’s importance of faith | 2412 | 20.0 | 576 | 80.8 | 1816 | 16.1 | p < 0.001 | 1782 | 83.5 | 628 | 6.3 | p < 0.001 |
| Father’s importance of faith | 2075 | 17.2 | 493 | 69.7 | 1563 | 13.8 | p < 0.001 | 500 | 5.0 | 1572 | 73.9 | p < 0.001 |
| Church activities | 1060 | 8.1 | 498 | 70.2 | 455 | 4.1 | p < 0.001 | 585 | 27.7 | 366 | 3.7 | p < 0.001 |
| Total | 13,377 | 100 | 726 | 5.9 | 11478 | 94.1 | 2170 | 17.8 | 10,021 | 82.2 | ||
Notes: Number of missing cases per variable: Smoking—104; Drinking—4943; Recent cannabis use—9089; Early sexual intercourse—9167; Religious attendance—1173; Importance of faith—1186; Mother’s church attendance—1257; Father’s church attendance—1306; Mother’s importance of faith—1299; Father’s importance of faith—1316; Church activities—301. a Only numbers regarding the respondents with the occurrence of health-risk behavior are presented.