Mediating proactive criminal thinking with perceived parental acceptance of child delinquency: assessing the "mediators within mediators" hypothesis
The purpose of this study was to determine whether parental acceptance of child delinquency, as perceived by the child, mediates proactive criminal thinking in adolescents. The hypothesis that perceived parental acceptance of child delinquency mediates proactive criminal thinking in its effect on of...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2021
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Deviant behavior
Year: 2021, Volume: 42, Issue: 1, Pages: 80-95 |
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| Summary: | The purpose of this study was to determine whether parental acceptance of child delinquency, as perceived by the child, mediates proactive criminal thinking in adolescents. The hypothesis that perceived parental acceptance of child delinquency mediates proactive criminal thinking in its effect on offending behavior was tested in 1,588 youth (778 boys, 810 girls) from the Offending, Crime, and Justice Survey (OCJS) using a four-wave rotating panel design. Contrasting a target pathway (Wave 1 proactive criminal thinking [PCT] → Wave 2 perceived parental acceptance of child delinquency [PAD] → Wave 3 PCT → Wave 4 serious offending) with a comparison pathway (Wave 1 PAD → Wave 2 PCT → Wave 3 PAD → Wave 4 serious offending) revealed that only the target pathway achieved significance. These results suggest that criminal cognition may conform to a fractal-like "mediators within mediators" pattern whereby perceptions of parental acceptance of child delinquency mediate the planned, calculated, and predatory features of antisocial cognition in the form of proactive criminal thinking. |
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| Item Description: | Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 93-95 |
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| ISSN: | 1521-0456 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/01639625.2019.1651463 |