Associations of Maternal Religiosity and Adolescent Emotional Competence in an Urban, Low-Income African American Sample

Maternal religiosity, indexed by religious attendance, commitment, and coping, was concurrently associated with emotional competence in a sample of 322 black adolescents. For emotion regulation, this positive association was moderated by gender and only observed for females. However, religiosity was associated with lower emotional lability for both males and females.