Participating in religious activities and adolescents’ self-esteem: empirical evidence from buddhist adolescents in Thailand

This paper aims at quantifying the relationship between participating in Buddhist religious activities and Buddhist adolescents’ self-esteem. It uses Thailand as a case study as Buddhism is the predominant religion of this country. Using ordered-probit regression models with a national survey of 1,648 Thai Buddhist adolescents, our results show that participating in Buddhist religious activities that involved maintaining mindfulness, including...