Psychosocial factors and delinquency: study of reciprocal effects
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https://doi.org/10.24310/espsiescpsi.vi4.13454Keywords:
delinquency, family, peer groups, interactional models, reciprocal effectsAbstract
The relations between psychosocial factors and delinquency have been a tradicional object of study in social sciences. Specifically, family and peer group variables have received a great deal of attention as determinants of deviant behaviour. Decades of research have found that delinquency is associated with a weak attachment to family, inadequate disciplinary patterns and involvement in antisocial groups. Usually, these findings are interpreted in undirectional terms: delinquency as a produce of both a poor family climate and involvement with delinquent peers. Nonetheless, in the last years, new theoretical contexts suggest the existence of reciprocal effects: delinquency can exert effects on family relations and on the type of friends selected by the individual. The present work explores these hypotheses, in line with modern “interactional” explanations. Data were twice collected on a sample of 820 adolescents; family and group variables were assessed, as well as self-reported delinquency. Results from covariance structure analyses suggest that delinquency affects family and group characteristics: it erodes attachment to parents, promotes hard disciplinary behaviours and increases involvement with deviant peers. These spiral effects can contribute to sustain the antisocial way oflife.
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