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DT: aja Abstract-of-Journal-Article
LA: English
CP: United-States
PY: 1991
AB: A model of delinquency was constructed based on social control & social learning theories, to specifically examine how parenting factors, social skills, value commitments, & problems in school contribute to adolescents' association with deviant peers & involvement in delinquent behavior. The model was tested using a sample of 61 families, all including a seventh grader. Questionnaires & coded videotaped family interaction were employed as measures of study constructs. The results largely supported the proposed models. 1 Table, 2 Figures, 1 Appendix, 54 References. Adapted from the source document. (Copyright 1992, Sociological Abstracts, Inc., all rights reserved.)
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DT: aja Abstract-of-Journal-Article
LA: English
CP: United-States
PY: 1991
AB: Concepts of deviance & supportive evidence derived from social learning, differential association, social control, & containment theories were drawn on to explore variance in adolescent sexual behavior & to construct an integrative theoretical model, using anonymous questionnaire data collected from 1,496 students in grades 7-12 in 10 private schools. Hierarchical regression procedures demonstrated that sociodemographics accounted for 15% of the total variance in sexual intercourse participation; theoretical factors explained 29%. Multivariate analyses revealed the most predictive of 16 theoretical factors was differential peer association (66%). Factors derived from control theory accounted for less than 1%, & no support was found for containment theory. The explanatory model proposed is based on the assumption that it is the joint occurrence of weak familial bonding & differential peer association that maximizes the probability of sexual exploration. Further research is needed to test the model with appropriate path analytic procedures in other data sets. 1 Table, 63 References. V. Wagener (Copyright 1992, Sociological Abstracts, Inc., all rights reserved.)
DE: Adolescents- (D008400); Sexual-Behavior (D761400)
IP: adolescent sexual behavior, integrative theoretical model; questionnaire data; private school students;
SH: the family and socialization; sociology of sexual behavior (1940); the family and socialization; adolescence & youth (1939)