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Sarah Swaney ENGL- 1102

553 most studies have focused on high school students despite the widespread alarm over substance related problems and their consequences among college students (Perkins 2002a).

This is what weve been discussing for weeks in our meetings preparing for the college service were starting. All the attention is on high schoolers, but the transition to college would seem to cause a change in someones behavior more. Peer pressure, parties, no parents, no strong religious ties would help to stop the alcohol and drug abuse. This proves that being in church or being in a religious group does in fact have some value and persuasion in how on behaves and what habits they develop and what activities they choose to partake in. This is statistical evidence that church, which emphasizes right versus wrong, is evidently working in those students who are of attendance.

553 The majority of published studies on religion and deviance indicate that adolescents who attend religious services more often are less likely to engage in a wide array of healthrisk behaviors (Wallace and Forman 1998). 553 In a nationally representative sample of college students attending 140 different US colleges, approximately 25% of students reported having used marijuana within the previous year, and the marijuana use was highest among students who indicated that religion was unimportant to them (Bell et al. 1997). 554 With regard to sexual risk-taking behaviors among first-year college students, Zaleski and Schiaffino (2000) found that students who reported higher levels of religiousness were less likely to engage in sexual activity compared to their less religious counterparts.

Based on the Bible, sex was created for a married couple in a God based relationship that intended to spend the rest of their lives together. Sex was not created for a one-night stand with someone you may never see again. The fact that more religious college students participated in less sexual activity shows that the church, the Bible, and their relationship with God does come into play when making decisions. This makes sense. Once you are a Christian, the Holy Spirit steps in as your conscience and helps to guide you and direct you as to what is right and what is wrong. When you are attached to God, you seek to please Him and live in His will, and these types of behavior are not what He has in mind for us.

554 Individuals with a secure (attachment to God) are likely to consult God for guidance and to internalize divinely sanctioned norms of behavior, perhaps including behaviors influencing alcohol consumption, illicit drug use, and risky sexual practices.