Sentences with phrase «studies on delinquency»

Therefore, studies on drug use were excluded as well as studies on delinquency, except if drug use or delinquency was part of an instrument measuring externalizing problems.

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.

In the first step of the inclusion process, adolescents at increased risk for developing externalizing symptoms were oversampled, because of a specific focus of the RADAR study on delinquency development.

Not exact matches

In a study that looked at U.S. regions where at least 80 percent of workers commute, Goldman found uneven results: Improving labor markets and declines in mortgage delinquency, but not enough to translate to substantial retail spending gains on a national level.

In the U.S.A., for example, there have been the 1928 National Committee for the Study of Social Values in Motion Pictures, the decade - long Senate hearings on the role of the media in juvenile delinquency in the 1950s, the 1968 National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence, and the 1972 Surgeon - General's Scientific Advisory Committee's Report on Television and Social Behaviour.

A variety of studies suggest that fathers» engagement positively impacts their children's social competence, 27 children's later IQ28 and other learning outcomes.29 The effects of fathers on children can include later - life educational, social and family outcomes.1, 2,26 Children may develop working models of appropriate paternal behaviour based on early childhood cues such as father presence, 30,31 in turn shaping their own later partnering and parenting dynamics, such as more risky adolescent sexual behaviour32 and earlier marriage.33 Paternal engagement decreases boys» negative social behaviour (e.g., delinquency) and girls» psychological problems in early adulthood.34 Fathers» financial support, apart from engagement, can also influence children's cognitive development.35

The study used data on student loan delinquencies by zip code, from the credit reporting agency Experian, and matched this to information on racial demographics by zip code from the Census Bureau's American Community Survey.

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.

Hyunsan Cho and colleagues conducted an experimental study of the program's impact and found no significant effect on delinquency immediately following the intervention or at the six - month follow - up.

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.

The FICO study simulated various types of mortgage delinquencies on three representative credit bureau profiles of consumers scoring 680, 720 and 780, respectively.

«Our study clearly demonstrated that as the TPR increased, delinquency levels decreased on credit cards, auto loans and mortgages,» Becker said.

A new TransUnion study found that consumers with the ability to pay larger amounts than the minimum payment due on their credit cards had significantly lower delinquency rates on not only their credit cards, but also their auto loans and mortgages.

FICO studies this information zeroing in on trends and negative outcomes, while learning what symptoms occurred before these delinquencies manifested on credit and lead to defaults.

However, while you might think young folks whose dogs look like a shark on a leash are more likely to be troublemakers, the study found no link between delinquency and people's preferences for aggressive - looking pooches.

Summary: (To include comparison groups, outcomes, measures, notable limitations) This study examined an intensive mentoring program that focuses on youth deemed at - risk for juvenile delinquency or mental illness [now called Friends for Youth Mentoring Services].

Using data from Waves 1 and 2 of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, I extend prior research on family transitions and adolescent well - being by examining the influence of parental marital and cohabitation transitions on adolescent delinquency, depression, and school engagement.

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.

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.

The present study used data from a panel study of 332 Midwestern families to examine the impact of harsh corporal punishment and quality of parental involvement on three adolescent outcomes — aggressiveness, delinquency, and psychological well - being.

A meta - analysis update on the effects of early family / parent training programs on antisocial behaviour and delinquency (Piquero et al., 2016) is an excellent and timely study which shows the huge value that evidence - based parenting programs represent.

A meta - analysis update on the effects of early family / parent training programs on antisocial behaviour and delinquency (Piquero et al., 2016) is an excellent and timely study which shows the huge value that evidence - based parenting programs -LSB-...]

The current study examined the joint contributions of pubertal maturation, parental monitoring, involvement in older peer groups, peer dating, and peer delinquency on dating in a sample of early adolescent boys and girls.

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

Funding for the current study was provided by the Penn State Children, Youth, and Families Consortium and a grant from the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency to Centre County Communities That Care ® (CTC).

On all three presenting problems targeted in this study (i.e., conduct problems, peer - based delinquency, and self - reported drug use), BSFT was significantly more efficacious than the GC.

This study examines both the direct and indirect (through increases in self - competence) effects of a Kids In Transition to School (KITS) program, intervention designed to promote school readiness in children in foster care on third grade indicators of risk for becoming involved in alcohol use and delinquency (e.g., positive expectations about alcohol use, endorsement of antisocial activities, and associations with deviant peers.

Because most studies focused on general delinquency and to a much lesser extent on overt or covert delinquency we were able to conduct moderator analyses for only two parenting dimensions (support and indirect parenting).

Thus, given the small number of previous studies on parenting styles and delinquency, definite conclusions on whether parenting styles have stronger links to delinquency than parenting dimensions or which parenting style has the strongest link to delinquency can not be drawn.

Future studies should extend research on parenting styles and delinquency in order to clarify whether these combinations of parenting characteristics have stronger associations with delinquency than only single dimensions.

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.

Although hardly any studies were found on the link between a neglectful parenting style and delinquency, studies that measured parental neglect unidimensionally resulted in strong links between neglectfulness and delinquency (ESr = 0.29).

We chose the analyses on official delinquency, because studies on official delinquency are less commonly available.

The source of delinquency was not associated with effect size, indicating that no significant differences were found between studies using self - reported delinquency and studies relying on official delinquency.

Future studies should make an effort to involve both fathers and mothers in their investigations and more clearly distinguish between father's and mother's reports on parenting when analyzing the link between parenting and delinquency.

Four selection criteria were used to select studies: operationalization of delinquency and parenting (described in more detail below), investigations on Western samples only (given cultural differences in parenting), and investigations where bivariate associations between parenting and delinquency were reported (as multivariate results can not be compared across studies).

Studies on overt delinquency resulted in stronger links between parental knowledge and child disclosure and delinquency (ESr = − 0.23, p < 0.001, k = 5 vs. ESr = − 0.07, p > 0.10, k = 3).

We found that studies on overt delinquency, such as violent offences, found stronger links between poor child disclosure and parental knowledge on the child's whereabouts and delinquency than studies on covert delinquency, such as theft and arson.

For the number of delinquency items in a questionnaire we found a trend in the category psychological control (z = 1.68, p < 0.10, k = 19), indicating that stronger links between psychological control and delinquency were found in studies that used measures with a larger number of items on delinquent acts.

We consider four main moderators: gender of the child and the parent, delinquency source and type, informant on parenting (parent or child), and short - vs. long - term relationships and also analyze methodological moderators related to study quality.

Some studies on parenting and delinquency used information about parenting reported by the child, whereas other studies used the parent as an informant.

One study that focused on delinquency revealed no within - individual association with parental educational level and occupational status [28].

Studies on sex - differences in the link between family factors and delinquency are scarce and their findings are contradictory.

Studies vary on the kinds of delinquency and parenting dimensions that are investigated, on how these constructs are measured, and on the populations from which the samples are drawn.

TITLE: A Study on the Moderating Effect of Family Functioning on the Relationship between Deviant Peer Affiliation and Delinquency among Chinese Adolescents

Fact: «Although early research suggests that youth living in two - parent biological families fare better on a range of developmental outcomes than those in single - parent or alternative structures (Amato and Keith, 1991), this research typically finds that effects of family structure on developmental outcomes such as delinquency are not strong (Hetherington and Kelly, 2002)... More tangible differences in family dynamics or circumstances — such as supervision practices — are largely responsible when study groups have different outcomes... The highest rates of delinquency were for youth in father - only households, followed by father - stepmother...»

A variety of studies suggest that fathers» engagement positively impacts their children's social competence, 27 children's later IQ28 and other learning outcomes.29 The effects of fathers on children can include later - life educational, social and family outcomes.1, 2,26 Children may develop working models of appropriate paternal behaviour based on early childhood cues such as father presence, 30,31 in turn shaping their own later partnering and parenting dynamics, such as more risky adolescent sexual behaviour32 and earlier marriage.33 Paternal engagement decreases boys» negative social behaviour (e.g., delinquency) and girls» psychological problems in early adulthood.34 Fathers» financial support, apart from engagement, can also influence children's cognitive development.35

Studies that relied on self - report measures of delinquency yielded larger effect sizes than studies in which delinquency data was collected via official records, such as police or court records (i.e., arrests or convictions; r = -0.19 for self - reported delinquency versus r = -0.10 for official delinquency; Z = -4.9, p < 0.001; TaStudies that relied on self - report measures of delinquency yielded larger effect sizes than studies in which delinquency data was collected via official records, such as police or court records (i.e., arrests or convictions; r = -0.19 for self - reported delinquency versus r = -0.10 for official delinquency; Z = -4.9, p < 0.001; Tastudies in which delinquency data was collected via official records, such as police or court records (i.e., arrests or convictions; r = -0.19 for self - reported delinquency versus r = -0.10 for official delinquency; Z = -4.9, p < 0.001; Table 1).

In fact, the second highest rate of self - reported delinquency in the sample was found for the group of children who were high on CU traits but without conduct problems at the start of the study.