Original scientific paper
Self-Expressed Tendency of Adolescents towards Social Deviations and Antisocial Behaviour
Vlado ŠAKIĆ
Renata FRANC
Boris MLAČIĆ
Abstract
The aims of this paper were to establish the occurrence of self-
-expressed deviant and antisocial behaviour of adolescents and
check whether there are differences in the expressed inclination
towards certain types of behaviour with regard to some
sociodemographic variables. The gathering of information took
place in 1998 on a representative sample of Croatian
highschool students (N= 2 823). Antisocial and deviant
behaviour was examined by means of an adapted Scale for
self-expressing delinquency comprising 36 individual
behaviours grouped into six types of behaviour, based on the
results of the main components analysis. These were: deviant
behaviour, vandalism, thefts, thefts with violence, violence and
social pathology. The sociodemographic variables included in
the analysis consisted of gender and age of adolescents, school
success and repeating a grade, father's and mother's level of
education and work status, self-assessment of economic status
and the level of urbanisation of the place of education. The
occurrence of individual types of behaviour is within the range
of 61.5% for "truancy" up to 1.9% for "using violence for extorting
money from teachers or adults in school". Analysis according
to types of behaviour indicates that the greatest occurrence was registered for deviant behaviour and vandalism,
and the smallest for thefts with violence. Analyses concerning
sociodemographic variables have established a significant
difference in inclinations towards all types of behaviour with
regard to gender and general school success of students, while
the occurrence of other sociodemographic variables as a
significant source of difference depends on the analysed type
of behaviour.
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Hrčak ID:
19688
URI
Publication date:
30.6.2002.
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