Race, Family Structure, and Delinquency: A Test of Differential Association and Social Control Theories

Matsueda, Ross L.; Heimer, Karen

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“…Empirically, two sets of well-established findings suggest the hypothesis of a genetic similarity among close friends, at least with respect to certain attitudes, traits, and behaviors: (1) friends share certain attitudes, traits and behaviors (e.g., Bearman & Bruckner, 2000;Berelson et al, 1954;Duncan et al, 1972;Matsueda, 1982;Matsueda & Heimer, 1987); (2) many of these attitudes, traits, and behaviors have been shown to be partially genetic (e.g., Plomin et al, 2003;Plomin et al, 2001;Rodgers et al, 1999). These findings point to the possibility of a genetic similarity among best friends because they are similar in certain characteristics and because the source of the similarity is partially genetic.…”

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“…Friends are found to be similar in height (Berkowitz, 1969), activities, needs, attitudes, and personality (Berscheid & Walster, 1978). The incidence of delinquent behavior was found to be associated with the delinquency of the peer group (Matsueda 1982;Matsueda & Heimer, 1987). Girls who had low-risk friends in their immediate circle of friends or in their peer groups were much less likely to experience sexual intercourse or pregnancy than girls who had averageor high-risk friends (Bearman & Bruckner, 2000).…”

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Genetic Similarity Shared by Best Friends Among Adolescents

Guo¹

2006

Twin Res Hum Genet

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T wo observations suggest a genetic similarity among close friends: (1) the observed similarity among friends in certain traits and behaviors; (2) the evidence that many of these traits and behaviors have a genetic component. This hypothesis is tested using monozygotic (MZ) twins, dizygotic (DZ) twins, full biological siblings, and their best friends from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health). Whether the resemblance between MZ twins' friends is larger than that between friends of DZ twins and full siblings is investigated with respect to 4 individual traits or behaviors: grade point average (GPA), AHPVT (the version Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test [PPVT] designed for Add Health), aggressive behavior, and depression. Our hypothesis is supported in analyses among same-sex friends (not among different-sex friends) for GPA, aggressive behavior, and AHPVT. HypothesisEmpirically, two sets of well-established findings suggest the hypothesis of a genetic similarity among close friends, at least with respect to certain attitudes, traits, and behaviors: (1) friends share certain attitudes, traits and behaviors (e.g., Bearman & Bruckner, 2000;Berelson et al., 1954;Duncan et al., 1972;Matsueda, 1982;Matsueda & Heimer, 1987); (2) many of these attitudes, traits, and behaviors have been shown to be partially genetic (e.g., Plomin et al., 2003;Plomin et al., 2001;Rodgers et al., 1999). These findings point to the possibility of a genetic similarity among best friends because they are similar in certain characteristics and because the source of the similarity is partially genetic.A hypothesis of genetic similarity shared by spouses and friends (Rushton, 1989) was suggested to expand Hamilton's (1964) theory of inclusive fitness. Hamilton's theory was put forward as an explanation for altruism: individuals who perform altruistic acts towards genetic relatives are more efficient in spreading their genes (inclusive fitness) than individuals who only attempt to spread their genes through their own offspring (individual fitness). A number of studies have tested the hypothesis of genetic similarity by showing that spouses and close friends are more similar than randomly paired individuals and that the friends and spouses of more genetically related individuals (e.g., monozygotic [MZ] twins) are more similar to each other than are those of less genetically related individuals (e.g., dizygotic [DZ] twins; Baker & Daniels, 1990;Daniels & Plomin, 1985;Iervolino et al., 2002;Manke et al., 1995;Rowe & Osgood, 1984;Rushton & Bons, 2005).In this analysis, we test the hypothesis of genetic similarity shared by best friends among adolescents using MZ twins, DZ twins, and full siblings as well as their best friends collected by the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health; Harris et al., 2003). Our analysis makes at least three contributions. First, we use data on both genetically related individuals and their friends directly. In almost all previous empirical tests, friends data are reported b...

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confidence: 99%

Section: Hypothesismentioning

confidence: 99%

Genetic Similarity Shared by Best Friends Among Adolescents

Guo¹

2006

Twin Res Hum Genet

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“…Naime, istraživanja su pokazala da je vrlo važan prediktor privrženo-sti roditeljima, ali i delinkventnoga ponašanja, odnos među roditeljima, tj. postojanje sukoba među njima (Capaldi i Patterson, 1991.;Crockett i sur., 1993.;DeKlyen i sur., 1998.;Gorman--Smith i sur., 1999.;Matsueda i Heimer, 1987.;McCord, 1991.). Na primjer, Joan McCord (1990.)…”

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Povezanost Privrženosti Roditeljima S Rizičnim I Delinkventnim Ponašanjem Kod Adolescenata

Ručević

2011

Drustvena istrazivanja

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Osnovni cilj ovoga rada bio je ispitati povezanost privrženosti mjerene na nekoliko dimenzija (komunikacija, povjerenje i otuđenost) i raznih oblika delinkventnoga i rizičnoga ponašanja na mladićima (n=226) i djevojkama (n=480) iz opće populacije od 13 do 19 godina. Konkretno, istraživanje je ispitivalo (a) ulogu spola kao moderatora efekata dimenzija privrženosti na izraženost pojedinih oblika rizičnoga i delinkventnoga ponašanja kao i (b) učinke jednog od roditelja i obaju roditelja kojima je osoba visoko privržena na izraženost raznih oblika rizičnoga i delinkventnoga ponašanja. Delinkventno i rizično ponašanje, kao i privrženost, mjereni su samoiskazom. Rezultati općenito pokazuju efekt spola na odnos između privrženosti ocu i majci te delinkventnoga, ali ne i rizičnoga, ponašanja. Analiza je pokazala da izraženost delinkventnoga ponašanja s povećanjem privrženosti ocu i majci više opada kod mladića nego kod djevojaka. Rezultati također pokazuju da visoka privrženost jednom roditelju podjednako učinkovito inhibira delinkventno ponašanje kao i visoka privrženost dvama roditeljima. Dobiveno je da je visoka privrženost roditelju skrbniku u jednoroditeljskom domu podjednako učinkovita u kontroliranju rizičnoga i delinkventnoga ponašanja kao i visoka privrženost dvama roditeljima u dvoroditeljskim obiteljima.Ključne riječi: privrženost, delinkventno ponašanje, rizično ponašanje, teorija socijalne kontrole Silvija Ručević, Sveučilište J. J. Strossmayera u Osijeku, Filozofski fakultet, Studij psihologije, L. Jägera 9,

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“…Empirical researches reported a significant impact of family disruptions and juvenile delinquency,( wells and Rankin's (1991) ; Matalka, (1994a); Matsueda and Heimer (1987) in their studies found that children's belong to broken homes and single -parent homes has a consistent and reliable association with deviant act . Other studies which carried and researching the interaction between age and family stricture has reported that disruptions that take place early in the life of adolescent tended to be more deviant than those which occurred later in life ( JubY and Farrington (2001); Wadsworth (1976).…”

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Juvenile Delinquency and Family Environment in Jordan

Al-Matalka

Hussainat

2012

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The present study aimed to examine some family environmental factors that influence delinquency in adolescents. The semi-structured type of interview schedule was used. The total sample of the present study was 300 in number divided in to two group; The first one is 150 male delinquent adolescents were selected. The second group is 150 non -delinquents. Their age -ranging from 12-17 years. The frequency table, percentage and chi -square (X²) were derived and utilized in statistical analysis to assess differences between the two groups of delinquents and non -delinquents on different family environmental variables . The findings indicate that environmental variables like size of the family , economic deprivation , parental deprivation , family discipline , inter parental relationship , child -parent relationship and parental acceptance -rejection play an important and effective role in the developmental growth of personality as well as social behavior of the delinquents . we suggest that family counseling will be an effective way to guide the public to the important of healthy family environment. Also further studies are suggested to have deep analysis for the affect of family environment on causing juvenile delinquency.

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Race, Family Structure, and Delinquency: A Test of Differential Association and Social Control Theories

Cited by 386 publications

References 14 publications

Genetic Similarity Shared by Best Friends Among Adolescents

Genetic Similarity Shared by Best Friends Among Adolescents

Povezanost Privrženosti Roditeljima S Rizičnim I Delinkventnim Ponašanjem Kod Adolescenata

Juvenile Delinquency and Family Environment in Jordan

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