The Impact of Societal Vulnerability and Violent Values on Self-Control in a Belgium Sample of Youth

Autor:	Claire Gavray, Lieven Pauwels, Ruben Brondeel, Nicole Vettenburg
Rok vydání:	2012
Předmět:	General theory media_common.quotation_subject Juvenile delinquency Vulnerability Sample (statistics) Self-control Psychology Law Gender comparison media_common Developmental psychology
Zdroj:	Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice. 29:13-31
ISSN:	1552-5406 1043-9862
DOI:	10.1177/1043986212471178
Popis:	The present study contributes to the study of self-control among adolescents by testing how self-control is affected by societal vulnerability and violent values and by investigating how (in)variant this relationship is for boys and girls. The Belgian International Self-Report Delinquency Study (ISRD-2) data were used to assess to what extent positive attitudes toward violence can be seen as mediators in the relationship between societal vulnerability and self-control. The findings suggest that violent values mediate the relationship between societal vulnerability and self-control. Despite results indicating higher self-control among females, when conducting the analyses separately by gender, we found that the relationship between societal vulnerability and self-control was very similar for boys and girls. It is concluded that societally vulnerable boys and girls are equally affected by the intermediate mechanism of violent values.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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