November 6, 1998

Religious Teenagers Have Healthy Behavior

By DAVID L. WHEELER

Students who report being religious also report a variety of behaviors that are apt to improve their health and help protect them from harm, two researchers have found.

John M. Wallace, Jr., an assistant professor of social work at the University of Michigan, and Tyrone A. Forman, a graduate student there, analyzed the responses of a nationally representative sample of 5,000 high-school seniors to a survey of

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