K C Longest
Biographic Data
| ID | 17626 |
|---|---|
| NAME | K C Longest |
| GIVEN NAMES | K C |
| FAMILY NAME | Longest |
| SIGNATURE | LONGEST K C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Furman University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4525-3373 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 54 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Youth Prospects in the Digital Society: Identities and Inequalities in an Unravelling Europe
Knowing who we teach: Tracking attitudes and expectations of first‐year postsecondary language learners
Given waning second language (L2) enrollments in K‐16 contexts, L2 programs must strive to understand their learners, as changes in their sociocultural environment can impact students' attitudes and, subsequently, their desire and ability to learn an L2. Thus, the authors conducted a two‐wave analysis of 68 first‐year L2 students' attitudes, dispositions, and expectations of L2 learning. Findings show that, as a group, first‐year students entered…
It All Depends on What You Want to Believe: How Young Adults Navigate Religion and Science
Background Religion and science are typically portrayed as fundamentally at odds and in competition over truth claims. Yet recent studies have shown that many Americans, including scientists, do not necessarily hold such a straightforward perspective on this complicated relationship. The majority of current studies have been limited in fully capturing the way people construct and understand the relationship between these domains given their predo…
Examining the Impact of Religious Initiation Rites on Religiosity and Disaffiliation over Time
Early religion scholars stressed the importance of institutionalized 'rites of passage' to integrate and reinvigorate groups themselves. Surprisingly, little work, however, has explored the efficacy of such rites for the religious lives of individuals. Although research has examined the transformative role of semi-institutionalized rites like short-term mission trips and pilgrimages, we shift the focus to consider the potential influence of more …
Does Pornography Use Reduce Marriage Entry During Early Adulthood? Findings from a Panel Study of Young Americans
Beliefs About Evolution and Educational Attainment
Using panel data from the National Study of Youth and Religion, we examine the effect of beliefs about evolution in high school on several postsecondary educational outcomes. Results indicate that net of a host of background factors and potential alternative explanatory factors, there are significant associations between beliefs about evolution and pursuing or obtaining a bachelor's degree, such that pure creationists (i.e., creationists who do n…
Moral Communities and Sex: The Religious Influence on Young Adult Sexual Behavior and Regret
Research indicates that religiosity inhibits adolescent and young adult sexual behavior, but few studies examine how religious contexts may shape sexual behavior. When religious contexts are considered, studies rarely test multiple spheres of religious influence simultaneously. Moreover, little research examines how either individual religiosity or religious contexts shape emotional responses to sex. We analyze nationally representative, longitud…
Identity: The Necessity of a Modern Idea
Exposure to science, perspectives on science and religion, and religious commitment in young adulthood
Young Catholic America: Emerging Adults In, Out of, and Gone from the Church
This book provides an in-depth description and analysis of American Catholics (and ex-Catholics) ages 18–23. The main focus is on their religious and spiritual lives but also includes an examination of how their religious faith and practice do and do not affect other life outcomes. Based on nationally representative survey and interview (longitudinal/panel) data of the highest quality, the National Study of Youth and Religion (NSYR—first and thir…
Position and Disposition: The Contextual Development of Human Values
Research on the importance of values often focuses primarily on one domain of social predictors (e.g., economic) or limits its scope to a single dimension of values. We conduct a simultaneous analysis of a wide range of theoretically important social influences and a more complete range of individuals' value orientations, focusing both on value ratings and rankings. Results indicate that traditional institutions such as religion and parenthood ar…
Assessing the Writing Process: Do Writing-Intensive First-Year Seminars Change How Students Write
Sociologists and scholars of composition have long argued that in order to get students to improve the quality of what they write, they need to change how they write. Here, the authors assess whether students’ participation in writing-intensive first-year seminars leads to changes in their writing process. Data collected via pretest and posttest interviews of 34 students show that writing-intensive seminars help first-year students become better …
Can You Lend Me a Hand? Task-Role Alignment of Social Support for Aspiring Business Owners
Previous research has emphasized the positive impact of supportive informal relations on workers in various occupational settings. Such support seems particularly important for workers who aspire to be self-employed, running their own businesses. Existing theory, however, offers little guidance regarding the mechanisms through which these supportive relationships operate. We argue that social support and role expectation theories address this con…
Gender, the Stress Process, and Health: A Configurational Approach
Numerous studies have shown that men and women react to experiences of stressors and a lack of protective resources in different ways, with women exhibiting high levels of internalizing health outcomes (e.g., psychological distress and ill health) and men showing higher levels of externalizing outcomes (e.g., substance abuse and aggression). Although this research is valuable, the emphasis on differing outcomes by gender has prematurely shifted t…
Conflicting or Compatible: Beliefs About Religion and Science Among Emerging Adults in the United States 1
A wide‐held assumption is that increased religiousness is associated with stronger perceptions of a conflict between religion and science. This article examines this assumption using four distinct questions asked on the third wave of the National Study of Youth and Religion (NSYR). Results indicate a variety of viewpoints for constructing the relationship between science and religion, rather than a simple conflict‐compatibility continuum. Further…
It's All for the Kids: Gender, Families, and Youth Sports
Fuzzy: A Program for Performing Qualitative Comparative Analyses (QCA) in Stata
Qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) is an increasingly popular analytic strategy, with applications to numerous empirical fields. This article briefly discusses the substantive motivation and technical details of qca, as well as fuzzy-set qca, followed by an in-depth discussion of how the new program fuzzy performs these techniques in Stata. An empirical example is presented that demonstrates the full suite of tools contained within fuzzy, inc…
Adolescent Work Intensity and Substance Use: The Mediational and Moderational Roles of Parenting
The dialectic between the adolescent quest for autonomy and parents' desire to regulate this quest are explored by examining the extent to which the association between adolescent work intensity and substance use is mediated and moderated by parenting practices. Results using data from the National Survey of Youth and Religion (N = 3,290) show that the association between work intensity and alcohol use is mediated by parenting practices. There is…
Conflicting or Compatible: Beliefs About Religion and Science Among Emerging Adults in the United States 1
A wide‐held assumption is that increased religiousness is associated with stronger perceptions of a conflict between religion and science. This article examines this assumption using four distinct questions asked on the third wave of the National Study of Youth and Religion (NSYR). Results indicate a variety of viewpoints for constructing the relationship between science and religion, rather than a simple conflict‐compatibility continuum. Further…
Adolescent Work Intensity and Substance Use: The Mediational and Moderational Roles of Parenting
The dialectic between the adolescent quest for autonomy and parents' desire to regulate this quest are explored by examining the extent to which the association between adolescent work intensity and substance use is mediated and moderated by parenting practices. Results using data from the National Survey of Youth and Religion (N = 3,290) show that the association between work intensity and alcohol use is mediated by parenting practices. There is…
Moral Communities and Sex: The Religious Influence on Young Adult Sexual Behavior and Regret
Research indicates that religiosity inhibits adolescent and young adult sexual behavior, but few studies examine how religious contexts may shape sexual behavior. When religious contexts are considered, studies rarely test multiple spheres of religious influence simultaneously. Moreover, little research examines how either individual religiosity or religious contexts shape emotional responses to sex. We analyze nationally representative, longitud…
Exposure to science, perspectives on science and religion, and religious commitment in young adulthood
Examining the Impact of Religious Initiation Rites on Religiosity and Disaffiliation over Time
Early religion scholars stressed the importance of institutionalized 'rites of passage' to integrate and reinvigorate groups themselves. Surprisingly, little work, however, has explored the efficacy of such rites for the religious lives of individuals. Although research has examined the transformative role of semi-institutionalized rites like short-term mission trips and pilgrimages, we shift the focus to consider the potential influence of more …
Does Pornography Use Reduce Marriage Entry During Early Adulthood? Findings from a Panel Study of Young Americans
Identity: The Necessity of a Modern Idea
Assessing the Writing Process: Do Writing-Intensive First-Year Seminars Change How Students Write
Sociologists and scholars of composition have long argued that in order to get students to improve the quality of what they write, they need to change how they write. Here, the authors assess whether students’ participation in writing-intensive first-year seminars leads to changes in their writing process. Data collected via pretest and posttest interviews of 34 students show that writing-intensive seminars help first-year students become better …
Can You Lend Me a Hand? Task-Role Alignment of Social Support for Aspiring Business Owners
Previous research has emphasized the positive impact of supportive informal relations on workers in various occupational settings. Such support seems particularly important for workers who aspire to be self-employed, running their own businesses. Existing theory, however, offers little guidance regarding the mechanisms through which these supportive relationships operate. We argue that social support and role expectation theories address this con…
Knowing who we teach: Tracking attitudes and expectations of first‐year postsecondary language learners
Given waning second language (L2) enrollments in K‐16 contexts, L2 programs must strive to understand their learners, as changes in their sociocultural environment can impact students' attitudes and, subsequently, their desire and ability to learn an L2. Thus, the authors conducted a two‐wave analysis of 68 first‐year L2 students' attitudes, dispositions, and expectations of L2 learning. Findings show that, as a group, first‐year students entered…
It All Depends on What You Want to Believe: How Young Adults Navigate Religion and Science
Background Religion and science are typically portrayed as fundamentally at odds and in competition over truth claims. Yet recent studies have shown that many Americans, including scientists, do not necessarily hold such a straightforward perspective on this complicated relationship. The majority of current studies have been limited in fully capturing the way people construct and understand the relationship between these domains given their predo…
Beliefs About Evolution and Educational Attainment
Using panel data from the National Study of Youth and Religion, we examine the effect of beliefs about evolution in high school on several postsecondary educational outcomes. Results indicate that net of a host of background factors and potential alternative explanatory factors, there are significant associations between beliefs about evolution and pursuing or obtaining a bachelor's degree, such that pure creationists (i.e., creationists who do n…
Adolescent Work Intensity and Substance Use: The Mediational and Moderational Roles of Parenting
The dialectic between the adolescent quest for autonomy and parents' desire to regulate this quest are explored by examining the extent to which the association between adolescent work intensity and substance use is mediated and moderated by parenting practices. Results using data from the National Survey of Youth and Religion (N = 3,290) show that the association between work intensity and alcohol use is mediated by parenting practices. There is…
Fuzzy: A Program for Performing Qualitative Comparative Analyses (QCA) in Stata
Qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) is an increasingly popular analytic strategy, with applications to numerous empirical fields. This article briefly discusses the substantive motivation and technical details of qca, as well as fuzzy-set qca, followed by an in-depth discussion of how the new program fuzzy performs these techniques in Stata. An empirical example is presented that demonstrates the full suite of tools contained within fuzzy, inc…
It's All for the Kids: Gender, Families, and Youth Sports
Conflicting or Compatible: Beliefs About Religion and Science Among Emerging Adults in the United States 1
A wide‐held assumption is that increased religiousness is associated with stronger perceptions of a conflict between religion and science. This article examines this assumption using four distinct questions asked on the third wave of the National Study of Youth and Religion (NSYR). Results indicate a variety of viewpoints for constructing the relationship between science and religion, rather than a simple conflict‐compatibility continuum. Further…
Gender, the Stress Process, and Health: A Configurational Approach
Numerous studies have shown that men and women react to experiences of stressors and a lack of protective resources in different ways, with women exhibiting high levels of internalizing health outcomes (e.g., psychological distress and ill health) and men showing higher levels of externalizing outcomes (e.g., substance abuse and aggression). Although this research is valuable, the emphasis on differing outcomes by gender has prematurely shifted t…
Position and Disposition: The Contextual Development of Human Values
Research on the importance of values often focuses primarily on one domain of social predictors (e.g., economic) or limits its scope to a single dimension of values. We conduct a simultaneous analysis of a wide range of theoretically important social influences and a more complete range of individuals' value orientations, focusing both on value ratings and rankings. Results indicate that traditional institutions such as religion and parenthood ar…
Assessing the Writing Process: Do Writing-Intensive First-Year Seminars Change How Students Write
Sociologists and scholars of composition have long argued that in order to get students to improve the quality of what they write, they need to change how they write. Here, the authors assess whether students’ participation in writing-intensive first-year seminars leads to changes in their writing process. Data collected via pretest and posttest interviews of 34 students show that writing-intensive seminars help first-year students become better …
Can You Lend Me a Hand? Task-Role Alignment of Social Support for Aspiring Business Owners
Previous research has emphasized the positive impact of supportive informal relations on workers in various occupational settings. Such support seems particularly important for workers who aspire to be self-employed, running their own businesses. Existing theory, however, offers little guidance regarding the mechanisms through which these supportive relationships operate. We argue that social support and role expectation theories address this con…
Young Catholic America: Emerging Adults In, Out of, and Gone from the Church
This book provides an in-depth description and analysis of American Catholics (and ex-Catholics) ages 18–23. The main focus is on their religious and spiritual lives but also includes an examination of how their religious faith and practice do and do not affect other life outcomes. Based on nationally representative survey and interview (longitudinal/panel) data of the highest quality, the National Study of Youth and Religion (NSYR—first and thir…
Identity: The Necessity of a Modern Idea
Exposure to science, perspectives on science and religion, and religious commitment in young adulthood
Does Pornography Use Reduce Marriage Entry During Early Adulthood? Findings from a Panel Study of Young Americans
Beliefs About Evolution and Educational Attainment
Using panel data from the National Study of Youth and Religion, we examine the effect of beliefs about evolution in high school on several postsecondary educational outcomes. Results indicate that net of a host of background factors and potential alternative explanatory factors, there are significant associations between beliefs about evolution and pursuing or obtaining a bachelor's degree, such that pure creationists (i.e., creationists who do n…
Moral Communities and Sex: The Religious Influence on Young Adult Sexual Behavior and Regret
Research indicates that religiosity inhibits adolescent and young adult sexual behavior, but few studies examine how religious contexts may shape sexual behavior. When religious contexts are considered, studies rarely test multiple spheres of religious influence simultaneously. Moreover, little research examines how either individual religiosity or religious contexts shape emotional responses to sex. We analyze nationally representative, longitud…
Examining the Impact of Religious Initiation Rites on Religiosity and Disaffiliation over Time
Early religion scholars stressed the importance of institutionalized 'rites of passage' to integrate and reinvigorate groups themselves. Surprisingly, little work, however, has explored the efficacy of such rites for the religious lives of individuals. Although research has examined the transformative role of semi-institutionalized rites like short-term mission trips and pilgrimages, we shift the focus to consider the potential influence of more …
Knowing who we teach: Tracking attitudes and expectations of first‐year postsecondary language learners
Given waning second language (L2) enrollments in K‐16 contexts, L2 programs must strive to understand their learners, as changes in their sociocultural environment can impact students' attitudes and, subsequently, their desire and ability to learn an L2. Thus, the authors conducted a two‐wave analysis of 68 first‐year L2 students' attitudes, dispositions, and expectations of L2 learning. Findings show that, as a group, first‐year students entered…
It All Depends on What You Want to Believe: How Young Adults Navigate Religion and Science
Background Religion and science are typically portrayed as fundamentally at odds and in competition over truth claims. Yet recent studies have shown that many Americans, including scientists, do not necessarily hold such a straightforward perspective on this complicated relationship. The majority of current studies have been limited in fully capturing the way people construct and understand the relationship between these domains given their predo…
Youth Prospects in the Digital Society: Identities and Inequalities in an Unravelling Europe
Psychology (14 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Political science (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Religion and Society Interactions (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology (5 works) · Developmental psychology (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works)