Preliminary communication
https://doi.org/10.31299/ksi.32.1.3
The role of objective and subjective indicators of socioeconomic status in explaining risky and antisocial behavior of adolescents
Mario Pandžić
; Catholic University of Croatia, Department of Psychology
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Abstract
Surprisingly, prior studies in the strain theories framework have not found that family socioeconomic status (SES) and adolescent risky and antisocial behavior were highly correlated. Revised strain theories point out that adolescent risky and antisocial behavior is not a result of low SES, but a consequence of perceived family economic stress (FES) caused by SES. Prior studies were focused on parents' subjective perception of FES while ignoring the adolescents' perception altogether. Therefore, this research aimed to compare the individual direct contributions of the SES, parental and adolescent perception of FES in the explanation of adolescents' risky and antisocial behavior. Moreover, the research aimed to examine whether the relationship between parental (and adolescents) perception of FES and adolescents' risky and antisocial behavior is potentially curvilinear on a sample of 179 adolescents and their parents. The results showed that SES, in contrast to the parental and adolescent perception of FES, does not significantly predict adolescents' risky and antisocial behavior. Adolescent perception of FES substantially explained adolescents' risky and antisocial behavior variance, over and above SES and parental perception of FES contributions and was a better predictor of adolescent risky and antisocial behavior than parental perception. Also, some evidence of a potential curvilinear relationship between parental, but not adolescent, perception of FES and adolescents' risky and antisocial behavior was found.
Keywords
objective indicators of socioeconomic status; parental perception of family economic stress; adolescent perception of family economic stress; adolescent risky and antisocial behavior
Hrčak ID:
318574
URI
Publication date:
28.6.2024.
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