Adolescent Religiosity and Psychosocial Functioning: Investigating the Roles of Religious Tradition, National-Ethnic Group, and Gender

Table 3

Means and standard deviations for youth outcomes by religious tradition category.

	Self esteem		Depression		Social initiative		Antisocial behavior
	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean	SD
Buddhist	3.604	.613	1.500	.305	2.980	.736	.361	.334
Christian	3.757	.684	1.363	.300	3.379	.794	.423	.368
Hindu	3.406	.564	1.398	.279	3.194	.789	.313	.350
Muslim	3.531	.612	1.462	.287	3.132	.729	.245	.281
No preference	3.691	.672	1.449	.330	3.105	.756	.391	.342
Other	3.612	.643	1.425	.332	3.300	.813	.426	.351
Atheist/non religious	3.698	.695	1.477	.331	3.077	.711	.361	.328