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In-Home Firearm Access among US Adolescents and the Role of Religious Subculture: Results from a Nationally Representative Study

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  • Stroope, Samuel

    (Louisiana State University)

  • Tom, Joshua C.

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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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  • Stroope, Samuel & Tom, Joshua C., 2017. "In-Home Firearm Access among US Adolescents and the Role of Religious Subculture: Results from a Nationally Representative Study," SocArXiv kns57, Center for Open Science.
    • Handle: RePEc:osf:socarx:kns57
    DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/kns57
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