RT Article
T1 Perceived Parental Competence, Moral Neutralization, and Cognitive Impulsivity in Relation to Future Delinquency: understanding the Socialization Process
JF Criminology, criminal justice, law & society
VO 24
IS 1
SP 1
OP 18
A1 Walters, Glenn D. 1954-
A2 Kremser, Jonathan
A2 Runell, Lindsey L.
LA English
YR 2023
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1869684427
AB The purpose of this study was to ascertain whether perception preceded belief when it came to predicting delinquency. Perceived parental competence served as the first stage of a socialization process designed to reduce delinquency. The second stage of this process entailed obstructing antisocial belief in the form of moral neutralization or cognitive impulsivity. I hypothesized that moral neutralization and cognitive impulsivity would mediate the relationship between perceived parental competence and delinquency in a model where perception preceded belief but that perceived parental competence would not mediate the relationship between neutralization/impulsivity and delinquency in a model where belief preceded perception. This hypothesis was tested in a group of 845 (406 boys, 439 girls) middle school (Grades 6-8) youth. Results from a three-wave prospective study revealed that moral neutralization and cognitive impulsivity both mediated the perceived parental competence-delinquency relationship, whereas parental competence did not mediate the neutralization/impulsivity-delinquency relationship. When the two components of perceived parental competence—parental support and parental monitoring/control—were analyzed separately, only the monitoring-to-neutralization-to-delinquency path achieved significance.
NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 15-18
K1 cognitive impulsivity
K1 Delinquency
K1 moral neutralization
K1 perceived parental competence
DO 10.54555/ccjls.7115.73896