This study elaborated on associations between youth's trauma-related emotional numbing across multiple affective domains (e.g., fear, sadness, happiness, anger) and delinquent behaviors. The study also examined whether the effects of posttrauma emotional numbing varied by the occurrence of posttrauma arousal symptoms. Participants were 123 middle school boys and girls from working-class, urban ...

2 studies used a laboratory measure of verbal aggressive behavior in which boys competed in pairs against one another in assembling a formboard. In Study I, 80 delinquent boys were subjected either to intense or mild verbal attack by a delinquent accomplice. Intense verbal aggression led to more retaliatory verbal aggression than did mild distraction. In Study II, 128 delinquent boys competed a...

To date, research focused on "traditional" (i.e. in-person) youth bullying behaviour has documented serious psychosocial challenges for those involved. How this literature translates to youth engaging in aggressive behaviours online has yet to be examined. Using the largest US sample of youth Internet users to date, psychosocial characteristics of youth engaging in Internet harassment were exam...

This paper provides an introduction to a recently developed conceptual framework-the dimensional-categorical spectrum-for utilizing general factor mixture models to explore the latent structures of psychological constructs. This framework offers advantages over traditional latent variable models that usually employ either continuous latent factors or categorical latent class variables to charac...

The article examines a prognostic method aimed at determining the propensity for delinquent behavior and personal characteristics of adolescents that influence formation illegal (basic drives, current tendencies, necessary sphere types accentuation character traits).This made it possible to combine both subjective projective verbal methods (methodology Sondi’s eight trains in modification by L....

PURPOSE This cross-sectional study was undertaken to examine the contributing factors related to juvenile delinquency, as well as to identify the effect of psychosomatic symptoms, physical abuse, sexual abuse, and coping strategies on delinquent behavior among Korean adolescents. METHODS To investigate the research problem, 2,146 adolescents, including 1,350 student adolescents and 796 delinq...

We tested 2 hypotheses derived from Moffitt's (1993) taxonomic theory of antisocial behavior, both of which are central to her explanation for the rise in delinquency during adolescence. We tested whether persistently delinquent individuals become more accepted by their peers during adolescence and whether individuals who abstain from delinquent behavior become less accepted. Participants were ...