RT Article
T1 The significance of variable order in assessing the effect of perceived parental knowledge and peer deviance on participant delinquency: a replication and extension
JF Crime & delinquency
VO 64
IS 11
SP 1417
OP 1436
A1 Walters, Glenn D. 1954-
A2 Espelage, Dorothy L.
LA English
YR 2018
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1582449848
AB The current study sought to replicate and extend an earlier investigation on mid- to late-adolescent delinquent males to a school-based sample of mixed-gender early- to midadolescents. Two pathways—one running from parental knowledge to peer deviance to participant delinquency and the other running from peer deviance to parental knowledge to participant delinquency—were tested in a group of 597 children (290 boys, 307 girls) from the Illinois Study of Bullying and Sexual Violence (ISBSV). The results of a comparison mediation analysis revealed that consistent with prior research, the knowledge-initiated pathway achieved significance but the peer-initiated pathway did not. These findings suggest that perceived parental knowledge has its greatest impact on delinquency indirectly by way of its effect on peer associations.
K1 Parental knowledge
K1 Peer deviance
K1 Causal mediation analysis
DO 10.1177/0011128717749858