TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2007//
TI  - The family → low self-control → deviance: a cross-cultural and cross-national test of self-control theory
JO  - Criminal justice and behavior
A1  - Vazsonyi, Alexander T.
A1  - Belliston, Lara M.
SP  - 505
EP  - 530
VL  - 34
IS  - 4
N2  - 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 "Black Belt," 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0093-8548
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0093854806292299
ID  - ref1
ER  -