@article{ref1,
title="The family → low self-control → deviance: a cross-cultural and cross-national test of self-control theory",
journal="Criminal justice and behavior",
year="2007",
author="Vazsonyi, Alexander T. and Belliston, Lara M.",
volume="34",
number="4",
pages="505-530",
abstract="The current investigation examined the predictive strength of family processes (closeness, support, and monitoring) both for low self-control and for a variety of deviance measures based on data from youth in seven different cultural and national groups (N = 8,997) from Hungary, Japan, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and the United States (nonrural high school, rural high school in the &quot;Black Belt,&quot; and university students). <br><br>FINDINGS from multigroup structural equation modeling analyses provided consistent support for highly similar patterns of associations among family processes, low self-control, and deviance measures across groups. In addition, they also indicated that family processes had both direct and indirect effects, through low self-control, on deviance. Together, family processes and low self-control explained between 25% and 36% of the variance in deviance across samples, net the effects by age, sex, family structure, and socioeconomic status. Keywords: Juvenile justice<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0093-8548",
doi="10.1177/0093854806292299",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0093854806292299"
}