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Croatian review of rehabilitation research, Vol. 47 No. 2, 2011.

Original scientific paper

Determinantes of Self-Image and Self-Esteem in Juveniles with Socialy Unacceptable Behaviour

Marijana Majdak orcid id orcid.org/0000-0003-3725-383X ; Studijski centar socijalnog rada, Pravni fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu
Željka Kamenov ; Odsjek za psihologiju, Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu

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Abstract

The goal was to explore the contribution of socio-demographic variables, stigmatization, self-monitoring and externality in explanation of self-image and self-esteem of male juveniles with socially unacceptable behavior on whom were applied non-institutional (N=146) and institutional measures (N=126). In the research were applied Coopersmith’s questionnaire of self-esteem, Offer’s revised questionnaire of self-image, Externality scale, Self-monitoring scale, Questionnaire for assessing the experience of stigmatization in juveniles with socially unacceptable behavior and assessed socio-demographic data. A hierarchic regression analysis was conducted, with following blocks of variables: first block connected to school status and age, second block connected to number of parents and marital status, third block about education and employment of parents as well as the assessment of financial status, fourth block about former interventions to family and juvenile, fifth block of formal and informal stigmatization and sixth block about self-monitoring and externality. Included variables explained 46% of variance of self-image and 42% of variance of self-esteem of juveniles with socially unacceptable behavior. The best predictors of self-image were formal and informal stigmatization and the assessment of financial status of the family, while in predicting the self-esteem the best predictors were informal stigmatization, externality, the assessment of financial status of the family, the number of former interventions by the court for criminal act and the age of juvenile.

Keywords

self-image; self-esteem; juveniles with socially unacceptable behavior; stigmatization

Hrčak ID:

70280

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https://hrcak.srce.hr/70280

Publication date:

7.7.2011.

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