INTRODUCTIONReligion is present in many areas of life. It can be used for many different purposes. Historically speaking, religion is something that individuals can believe in for strength and security. Although religion plays an important role in an individual's life, it remains to be seen whether religion is something that allows for individual identification or whether it is something that is manipulated during changing periods of life. Many studies show that religion is a central part of an individual's life. According to Lebedev, “Nowadays, religion does not serve to form a person's basic knowledge about the world, about social and interpersonal relationships from which his ideas about the meaning and purpose of life organically flow. Religion becomes a part of the individual's life and world exactly at the level of these latter things, while the basis of his social knowledge in terms of values ​​​​and worldview turns out to be uncorrelated with them" ( 2009: 85). , we see that individuals place their worldviews on the scale of religiosity. An individual places great importance on what he considers right and wrong based on his religion. Not only their religion at first glance, but also the extent to which they actively participate in their religion. Identification with an individual's religious group can in this sense be the cause of cautious and risky young adults. Likewise, by including an individual's religious group, it can act as a social reference point that can diminish socially unacceptable choices when they arise (Zaleski, Schiaffino 2000: 223). Having a religious anchor allowed a more fundamentalist and structured vision of life in general. There is m...... middle of paper......ligion. Russian Journal of Social Sciences 50(5):81-100Lee, Jenny J.2002 Gender religion and university attendance: change among students. The Review of Higher Education 25(4):369-383.Martin-Hansen, Lisa Michelle2006 Freshmen's conflict with religion and science. Science and Education 17: 317-338.Mattila, Anna S. and Yorghos Apostolopoulos and Sevil Sonmez and Lucy Yu and Vinod Sasidharan2001 The impact of gender and religion on students' spring break behavior. Journal of Travel Research 40: 193-200. Simons, Leslie Gordon and Callie Harbin Burt and F. Ryan Peterson2009 The effect of religion on sexual risk behavior among college students. Deviant Behavior 30(5): 467-485.Zaleski, Ellen H. and Kathleen M. Schiaffino2000 Religiosity and risky sexual behavior during the transition to college. Teenage Diary 23: 223-227.