Caregivers’ Expectations, Reflected Appraisals, and Arrests among Adolescents Who Experienced Parental Incarceration

Autor:	Cynthia J. Najdowski, Melissa E. Noel
Rok vydání:	2020
Předmět:	Sociology and Political Science 05 social sciences Juvenile delinquency General Social Sciences Reflected appraisal 050109 social psychology 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Psychology Social Sciences (miscellaneous) 050104 developmental & child psychology Developmental psychology
Zdroj:	Youth & Society. 54:1099-1125
ISSN:	1552-8499 0044-118X
DOI:	10.1177/0044118x20951068
Popis:	This research sought to identify a potential process by which intergenerational crime occurs, focusing on the effect of parental incarceration on adolescents’ subsequent arrests. We drew from Matsueda’s work on reflected appraisals as an explanatory mechanism for this effect. Thus, the present research examined whether caregivers’ and adolescents’ expectations for adolescents’ future incarceration sequentially mediated the effect of parental incarceration on adolescents’ actual arrest outcomes. Propensity score matching was used to examine this effect in a sample of 1,735 15- to 16-year-olds using NLSY97 data. Parental incarceration was positively related to caregivers’ expectations of adolescents’ future arrest. Moreover, caregivers’ expectations were strongly associated with adolescents’ expectations. Finally, the effect of parental incarceration on adolescents’ actual future arrest likelihood was partially mediated by caregivers’ and adolescents’ expectations for this outcome. This study revealed support for the proposition that the experience of parental incarceration may influence adolescents’ negative outcomes through reflected appraisals.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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