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Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology 2/2012

01-02-2012

A Longitudinal Examination of Serious Adolescent Offenders’ Perceptions of Chances for Success and Engagement in Behaviors Accomplishing Goals

Auteurs: Anne-Marie R. Iselin, Edward P. Mulvey, Thomas A. Loughran, He Len Chung, Carol A. Schubert

Gepubliceerd in: Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology | Uitgave 2/2012

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Abstract

We examined antisocial adolescents’ perceptions of the importance of and their ability to accomplish positive life outcomes (e.g., employment) and avoid negative ones (e.g., arrests) during their transition from adolescence to young adulthood. Participants were 1,354 adolescents from the Pathways to Desistance project, a multisite longitudinal study of seriously antisocial adolescents. Participants’ perceptions of the importance and likelihood of accomplishing positive adult goals at one age uniquely predicted how often they engaged in behaviors that were consistent with these goals the following year. Our findings suggest that among serious adolescent offenders aspirations to achieve positive goals are related to engaging in behaviors that bring adolescents’ current selves more in line with their aspired-to future selves. We discuss the implications of these findings for prevention and intervention efforts.
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More recent castings of strain theory (e.g., Agnew et al. 2002) argue for the importance of examining personality traits, negative emotions that may result from strainful events (e.g., anger and rage), and coping mechanisms that are used to deal with these emotions. These are important aspects of strain theory that we do not examine in the current paper because of space limitations.
 
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We also examined whether expectations and importance were more predictive of behaviors at specific ages (using dummy codes for each age). Results from this analysis were highly similar to our results using continuous indicators for age. Readers can contact the first author for results on the predictive abilities of importance and expectations at specific ages.
 
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The chi-square value for a likelihood ratio test was negative. Negative difference statistics are rare but possible (Muthen 2005) due to highly non-normal distributions, which we knew was the case for the distribution of this outcome measure. While corrections to chi-square difference statistics are available (see Satorra and Bentler 2010), to our knowledge none exist for correcting negative likelihood ratio difference statistics. Nonetheless, we can reject the null hypothesis of no incremental inclusion of age since the linear age coefficient was significant.
 
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The general longitudinal change in SRO across age was consistent with Monahan et al. (2009)’s findings that SRO decreases across adolescence.
 
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Metagegevens
Titel
A Longitudinal Examination of Serious Adolescent Offenders’ Perceptions of Chances for Success and Engagement in Behaviors Accomplishing Goals
Auteurs
Anne-Marie R. Iselin
Edward P. Mulvey
Thomas A. Loughran
He Len Chung
Carol A. Schubert
Publicatiedatum
01-02-2012
Uitgeverij
Springer US
Gepubliceerd in
Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology / Uitgave 2/2012
Print ISSN: 2730-7166
Elektronisch ISSN: 2730-7174
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10802-011-9561-z

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