Assessment of contextual traits: Parenting styles and peer pressure amongst juvenile delinquents

Parenting Styles, Peer Pressure, and the formation of Antisocial Behavior

Health of juvenile delinquents.

Intermediate treatment centres were established in 1969 to enable delinquent adolescents to remain within their communities under supervision, avoiding the imposition of a custodial sentence.' This study compares the physical health of a group of delinquent boys who attended Parkway, an intermediate treatment centre in a deprived inner city area, with that of non-delinquents. Subjects, methods ...

Perceived parenting styles, personality traits and sleep patterns in adolescents.

The present study examined the role of parenting styles with respect to adolescents' sleep patterns and symptoms of depression and anxiety. A total of 246 adolescents (age: 17.58+/-1.62) took part in the study. They completed several questionnaires with regard to parenting styles and to symptoms of anxiety and depression; additionally, they filled in a questionnaire assessing sleep-related pers...

Parenting Styles

The following ERIC Digest, written by Nancy Darling of Pennsylvania State University, discusses four types of parenting styles and the possible impact of the different parenting techniques.. ERIC Digests are short reports on topics of current interest to parents, policy makers, educators, and other practitioners. Other ERIC Digests are available on the ERIC/EECE Web site at http://ericeece.org/...

Narcissism and Parenting Styles

Baumrind's authoritative, permissive, and authoritarian parenting styles were analyzed within the context of Kohut's psychology of the self. College student perceptions of their parents were correlated with measures of self-functioning in order to test the hypotheses that perceived parental authoritativeness would be associated with less narcissistic maladjustment, that permissiveness would be ...