Risk Factors for Adolescent Violence
| Autor: | Lynn McCoy-Simandle, Paul M. Kingery, Richard R. Clayton |
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| Rok vydání: | 1997 |
| Předmět: |
education
05 social sciences Vulnerability 050301 education Sample (statistics) Education Psychiatry and Mental health Developmental and Educational Psychology Juvenile delinquency 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Proxy (statistics) Psychology 0503 education Social psychology 050104 developmental & child psychology |
| Zdroj: | School Psychology International. 18:49-60 |
| ISSN: | 1461-7374 0143-0343 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0143034397181005 |
| Popis: | Violence as a function of vulnerability and delinquency was examined in a sample of 2066 ninth-graders. Vulnerability was examined by several proxy measures (being hit, attacked, or touched inappropriately at school; being exposed to weapons at school; the absence of the father from the home; and mother's educational attainment). Violence was a composite measure of the frequency of hitting a student, hitting or shoving a teacher, carrying a weapon at school, group fighting, and armed robbery. Vulnerability indicators explained 48% of the variance in violence in the first step of a hierarchical multiple regression analysis. Delinquency measures (crime involvement, punishment at school, and drug involvement) and attitudes toward school increased the explained variance to 74%. Vulnerability is posited as a potential central mechanism for the development of violent behavior. Prospective study of this mechanism is recommended. |
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