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Mediating Mechanisms: Understanding the Link between Parenting and Adolescent Deviance Ph.D. Dissertation, Human Development and Family Studies, Auburn University, December 2005 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79 Publisher: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) Keyword(s): Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Discipline; Home Observation for Measurement of Environment (HOME); Modeling, Structural Equation; Parent-Child Interaction; Parental Influences; Parenting Skills/Styles; Self-Regulation/Self-Control Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. The purpose of the present longitudinal investigation was to examine (a) whether and how individual parenting constructs (age 8-9) from both the coercion theory and the general theory of crime were associated with the development of self-control (age 12-13) and deviance (age 16-17), and (b) whether self-control mediated the relation between parenting and deviance. Data were drawn from 736 mother and child participants via questionnaires and observations during three time periods. Child participants were split almost evenly by sex (males: n = 369, females: n = 367). Results indicated that an overall parenting construct characterized by parenting variables from both theories was associated with self-control and deviance. Further evidence indicated that parenting and self-control additively explained more variance in the engagement of deviance rather than self-control mediating the link. Finally, results indicated that deviance was best explained when three measures of self-control (i.e., ages 8-9, 12-13, and 16-17) were added to the model along with effective parenting. Overall, results allude to the importance of examining parenting constructs as described by both the general theory of crime and the coercion theory. Further, self-control was found to be important in the explanation of deviance. |
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Crosswhite-Gamble, Jennifer M. Mediating Mechanisms: Understanding the Link between Parenting and Adolescent Deviance. Ph.D. Dissertation, Human Development and Family Studies, Auburn University, December 2005. |