RT Article
T1 Sex differences in longitudinal pathways from parenting to delinquency
JF European journal on criminal policy and research
VO 23
IS 4
SP 503
OP 521
A1 Janssen, Heleen 1987-
LA English
YR 2017
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1567179134
AB In the current study, we examined longitudinally whether boys and girls differed in pathways from parenting to delinquency. Longitudinal mediational models were tested for boys and girls separately in which three parenting dimensions (i.e., monitoring, limit setting, and the quality of the parent-adolescent relationship) were hypothesized to influence adolescents’ level of self-control, delinquent attitudes, peer delinquency, and time spent in criminogenic settings, which in turn, were hypothesized to affect delinquency. Using data of 603 adolescents (11–17 years of age at T1) we found mean level differences between boys and girls in parental monitoring, parental limit-setting, self-control, delinquent attitudes, and peer delinquency. The results suggest furthermore that the model linking parenting to delinquency is similar for boys and girls. We found, however, that the indirect effect from the quality of the parent-adolescent relationship through self-control is stronger for girls than for boys.
K1 Adolescent delinquency
K1 Parenting
K1 Gender differences
K1 Self-control
K1 Criminogenic settings
K1 Peer delinquency
K1 Kriminogenes Setting
K1 Erziehung
K1 Juvenile criminology
K1 Sozialisation
DO 10.1007/s10610-017-9350-5