FAMILY WORSHIP PATTERNS AND THEIR CORRELATION WITH ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR AND BELIEFS

We examine behaviors involved in family worship, how these behaviors c luster together into specific patterns of family worship, and how thes e patterns of family worship relate to the behaviors and beliefs of ad olescents attending Seventh-day Adventist schools. Seven patterns of f amily worship were detected by cluster analysis of questionnaires comp leted, by 7,658 Seventh-day Adventist youth grades 6 through 12. Worsh ip patterns that actively involved youth in reading, praying, and shar ing their religious experience were rat-ed as more meaningful and inte resting and were associated with higher levels of Active Faith (a fact or score). Youth in families with worship patterns that did not active ly involve the youth were even lower on active Faith than youth whose families had no worship. However, No Worship youth were highest on Mat erialism/Legalism and Alcohol/Drug Use. With one exception, worship pa tterns with high youth involvement were associated with lower Alcohol/ Drug Use and lower Materialism/Legalism. Youth in the Shared Worship g roup, in which every family member participated in every phase of wors hip every day, were high on Active Faith but also relatively high on M aterialism/Legalism, and Alcohol/Drug use suggesting a pattern of comp ulsive behavior.