Sentences with phrase «behavior on delinquency»

Not exact matches

Teenage pregnancy is being cited as one of — if not the leading cause — of delinquency and crime, and it has been proven to have a direct bearing on behavior problems in school and academic performance.

But beyond offering a safe haven, research and evaluation studies have demonstrated that the programs can have a positive effect on a range of prevention outcomes, such as avoidance of drug and alcohol use, decreases in delinquency and violent behavior, increased knowledge of safe sex, avoidance of sexual activity, and reduction in juvenile crime.

Abstract: «The current study examines the influence of violent video game exposure on delinquency and bullying behavior in 1,254 seventh - and eighth - grade students.

Wide Scope, Questionable Quality: Three Reports from the Study on School Violence and Prevention (2000) investigates the extent of problem behavior in schools nationally and several aspects of delinquency prevention efforts in schools, such as the types and quality of prevention efforts, how schools plan and use information about prevention options to improve their own efforts and school management, and sources of funding for school prevention activities.

That's because your credit score is based more on patterns of behavior than single mistakes, so ensuring you maintain a consistently positive payment history can eventually outweigh an anomalous delinquency.

As already mentioned, current US consumer repayment behavior on the aggregate is strong — this can be seen in the continued decrease in the percentage of US consumers who have indications on their credit file of recent delinquency or other associated negative items such as collection agency accounts.

According to the APA's Monitor on Psychology web page, his «research focuses on the development, treatment and clinical course of aggressive and antisocial child behavior», and he has specialised in treating «at - risk behavior», such as teenage delinquency.

Advances in prevention in public health2 provide a model for prevention of adolescent health - risk behaviors by focusing on risk and protective factors predictive of these behaviors.3, 4 Research on the predictors of school failure, delinquency, drug abuse, teen pregnancy, and violence indicates that many of the same factors predict these different outcomes.5, 6 Recent research has shown that bonding to school and family protects against a broad range of health - risk behaviors in adoles cence.6 Yet, prevention studies typically have focused narrowly on a specific outcome, such as preventing substance abuse, and on attitudes and social influences that predict that outcome.7, 8 Previous studies on prevention have not sought to address the shared risk and protective factors for diverse health - risk behaviors that are the main threats to adolescent health.

Previous delinquency, substance abuse, and teen pregnancy prevention programs have been provided in the late elementary or middle school grades, just prior to the ages when delinquent behavior, substance use, and sexual activity increase in prevalence.6, 7,31,32 Yet the social development model that guides the present intervention suggests that early and sustained intervention through the elementary grades should put children on a different developmental trajectory leading to positive outcomes over the long term.

Wim Meeus and several colleagues report that parental influence on adolescent offending is strongest when an adolescent has no intimate partners; parental support did not influence delinquency for youth who consistently had a romantic partner over the course of the six - year study.88 In another recent study of serious adolescent offenders, girls who self - reported delinquent behavior were more likely to be strongly encouraged in that behavior by their current romantic partner.89 Interestingly, the association between partner encouragement and self - reported offending was strongest among youth reporting warm relationships with their opposite - sex parent.

Some observers have argued that female offenders can, in theory, be either adolescent - limited or life - course - persistent and that the relative scarcity of early - onset aggression in females indicates that they are generally less likely to follow the latter pathway.56 Others, however, have argued that the relative prevalence of adolescent - onset aggression in girls (compared with childhood - onset) indicates that persistent delinquency simply manifests at a later age in girls than it does in boys.57 In Persephanie Silverthorn and Paul Frick's model, girls and boys are influenced by similar risk factors during childhood, but the onset of delinquent behavior in girls is delayed by the more stringent social controls imposed on them before adolescence.

Research shows that high - quality father involvement and support are associated with a number of positive child outcomes, including decreased delinquency and behavioral problems, improved cognitive development, increased educational attainment, and better psychological wellbeing.8 Children with involved fathers, on average, perform better in school, have higher self - esteem, and exhibit greater empathy, emotional security, curiosity, and pro-social behavior.

However, other studies have found that father contact has a detrimental effect on children's math scores, delinquency, and behavior problems.

Fact: Parents» history of adolescent delinquency not only predicts their later divorces, but also «parents» personal behavior and personality characteristics have a greater impact on their children's behavior than does their married, never - married, or divorced status.»

Effects of Early Family / Parent Training Programs on Antisocial Behavior and Delinquency.

score on the Delinquency scale of the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) of 70 or greater (indicating behavior problems more serious than 98 percent of peers of the same age aBehavior Checklist (CBCL) of 70 or greater (indicating behavior problems more serious than 98 percent of peers of the same age abehavior problems more serious than 98 percent of peers of the same age and sex).

For the children in their care the center responds with an approach called «trauma - informed care,» which focuses on a person's experiences before trying to correct their behavior, whether it be juvenile delinquency, poor performance in school, or out - of - control anger.

Accordingly, Grade 5 SOC scores positively predicted Grade 7 scores on the Five Cs of PYD (i.e., competence, confidence, character, connection, and caring) and negatively predicted Grade 7 depression, delinquency, and risk behaviors.

Often, these questionnaires had both items on problem behavior or status offences and delinquency.

In addition to theoretical implications, our results concerning the link between discrete parenting behaviors (monitoring, neglectfulness, rejection) and delinquency have implications for intervention and prevention policies focusing on delinquency, in particular parent management training programs.

The protective effects of positive parenting and self - control were significantly associated with problem behaviors and the risk effects of the association with deviant peers and negative stigma were significant on the final level of delinquency.

Given that parenting may be differentially linked to overt and covert delinquency (see also, Loeber et al. 2008), future studies on delinquency should distinguish between overt and covert behaviors.

Children were eligible for inclusion if their parents had scored them above the 98th percentile on the Aggression or Delinquency Scales of the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL).

Even though the included longitudinal studies showed that poorer parenting practices preceded delinquent behavior, a bidirectional view on parent — child relations can not be rejected as we do not know whether the child - rearing characteristics had been influenced by earlier delinquency or other problem behaviors of the child.

A possible explanation could be that we focused on delinquency including at least some serious offences, while Barber et al. (1994) focused on delinquency that included a relatively limited range of minor delinquent acts.4 Nevertheless, our findings clearly indicate that psychological control, including keeping the child dependent and the use of guilt to control the child, elevates the risk for delinquent behavior.

This multisite randomized controlled trial examines the impact of a 12 - year long professional youth mentoring program, Friends of the Children (FOTC), on boys and girls who were identified during kindergarten as at the highest risk and lowest protection for future problems, including antisocial behavior and delinquency.

Parental criminality, arrests, and incarceration are at least modest predictors of violent and serious child delinquency, and there is evidence that the impact of parent criminality on child antisocial behavior is mediated by parenting practices.

For example, research has demonstrated positive effects on students» problem - solving skills, attitudes about conflict, impulse control, social behavior, delinquency, and substance use (Weissberg et al. 1997, Caplan et al. 1992, Kasprow et al. 1991).

Even «evidence - based» interventions may have few long - term effects on delinquency, substance use, and antisocial behavior.

Each type of adverse childhood experience was significantly associated with adolescent interpersonal violence perpetration (delinquency, bullying, physical fighting, dating violence, weapon - carrying on school property) and self - directed violence (self - mutilatory behavior, suicidal ideation, and suicide attempt).

Anger is positively associated with delinquent behavior whereas depressed mood has no effect on delinquency.

Examine the long - term effects of two childhood universal prevention programs on adolescent delinquency, substance use, and antisocial behavior.

Third, the questionnaire for self - reported delinquency included items that assess also mild forms of delinquent behavior (e.g., «Have you ever sprayed graffiti on places were this was illegal?»

Infants are dependent on their parents and the quality of their parenting skills, and it is therefore important to support the development of parenting skills in new parents, since lack of parenting skills can have detrimental and long term effects on the infants, such as school failure, behavior problems, relationship problems, substance abuse, and delinquency.

Specifically, we examine the influence of parents» own early involvement in delinquency, level of attachment to children, and harsh parenting practices on their children's trajectories of antisocial behavior.

Interventions are drawn from family - focused interventions rated as Model Plus, Model, or Promising on the Blueprints for Healthy Youth Development Web site (http://www.colorado.edu/cspv/blueprints/) based on evidence of their effectiveness in reducing child externalizing behaviors, substance use, and / or delinquency.

Social control theory focuses on the effects of parental behavior on adolescent delinquency but fails to take into account the effect of adolescent delinquency on parental behaviors.

A meta - analysis update on the effects of early family / parent training programs on antisocial behavior and delinquency.

Accumulating evidence, part of which is based on research on parental psychological control and much of which is based on Western samples, has shown that perceived controlling parenting relates to internalizing problems such as depression, low self - esteem and anxiety (e.g., Barber, Stolz, & Olsen, 2005) as well as to externalizing problems, including delinquency, antisocial behavior, and substance use (e.g., Walker - Barnes & Mason, 2004).

However, up till now the vast majority of research on psychopathic traits and delinquent behavior has focused on high - risk samples for juvenile delinquency [7].