Parental Social Bonds and Adolescents’ Convictions

Nielsen, Alva Albæk

doi:10.1080/01639625.2017.1410631

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“…This approach suffices for testing whether paternal risky behaviour moderates the association between father-child relationships and children's risky behaviour, which is of key theoretical interest in this study. This study addresses the lack of empirical work that examines whether parental risky behaviour moderates the effect of parent-child bonds on adolescent delinquency (Nielsen, 2019). We also address the issue raised in Cabrera et al (2018) of disproportionate scholarly attention given to mother-child dyad by bringing father-child relationship into focus.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Adolescent risky behaviour has been defined as engagement in socially undesirable and unlawful behaviour that entails risks to others and/or oneself (Jessor & Jessor, 1977). Relationships between parents and children have been linked to juvenile risky behaviour in numerous studies (Vanchugova et al, 2022;Nielsen, 2019;Donaldson et al, 2016;Tompsett and Toro, 2010;Goetting, 1994;Loeber and Stouthamer-Loeber, 1986; see a meta-analysis in Hoeve et al, 2009). However, the links between parents' and their children's risky behaviour and the parent-child relationship is relatively unstudied.…”

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“…Existing literature on adolescence suggests that delinquents are concentrated in families that tend to have parents raising the children who also engage in delinquency (e.g. Farrington et al, 2001;Farrington et al, 2009;also, see discussions in Nielsen, 2019;Tompsett and Toro, 2010;Loeber and Stouthamer-Loeber, 1986). Similarly, poor parenting practices are well-known predictors of children's risky behaviours -a key element of delinquency (e.g.…”

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“…However, there is nearly no scholarship that combines the two strands of enquiry. A recent work by Nielsen (2019) points to the lack of evidence on whether the specific association between parent-child relationships and their children's risky behaviour is affected by parents' own engagement in risky behaviour. Nielsen et al(2019) suggests that, if attachment to delinquent parents amplifies children's delinquency, then prevention programs should focus on training parenting skills or, alternatively, on strengthening children's bonds with conventional others, rather than delinquent parents.…”

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“…In turn, parental knowledge about where, how and with whom adolescent children spend their time was consistently found to be a strong protective factor against risky behaviour in adolescence. (Vanchugova et al, 2022;Donaldson et al, 2016;Hoeve et al, 2009;Tompsett and Toro, 2010;Nielsen, 2019).…”

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Linking the Risky Behaviour of Fathers and Their Children

Vanchugova¹,

Norman²,

Elliot³

2023

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Using data from the UK's Millennium Cohort Study, this study examined whether the father's involvement in childcare, father-child closeness and conflict was associated with risky behavior of their adolescent children. Further, the study explored whether these associations were moderated by the fathers' risky behavior. A set of logistic regressions was run to evaluate the associations of interest, both cross-sectionally and longitudinally. The analysis also controlled for the mother-child relationship and mother's risky behavior. The estimated models did not show significant associations between the father's and children's risky behavior, however some evidence of a positive association between these constructs arose from a cross-tabulation analysis. The main analysis did not provide evidence in support of the association between father-child relationshipand risky behavior in early adolescence. However, an additional analysis revealed a negative association in early adolescence between the father's involvement and the odds of the children's risky behavior. By contrast, in all estimated models the father's involvement in childhood was strongly associated with lower odds of risky behavior in early adolescence. The associations between the father's and children's risky behavior were moderated by father-child relationship, however the direction of the moderation effect could not be consistently established in this study.

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Norman²,

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Measuring the association between fathers’ involvement and risky behaviours in adolescence

Vanchugova

Norman

Elliot

2022

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Predicting Moffitt's Developmental Taxonomy of Antisocial Behavior Using Life History Theory: A Partial Test of the Evolutionary Taxonomy

Nedelec,

DiRienzo

2023

Evol Psychol

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Evolutionary criminology is an approach to the understanding of crime and criminality that is based in part on key aspects of evolutionary psychology. The approach allows for a renewed examination of traditional criminological assumptions and can serve to further enhance theoretical viewpoints on antisocial behavior. The recently developed evolutionary taxonomy theory is an example of such an approach. Relying on the tenets of life history theory, the evolutionary taxonomy was proposed as a theoretical scaffolding for Moffitt's developmental taxonomy of offending. While recent tests of the evolutionary taxonomy have been informative, lacking from the existing literature is an assessment of the extent to which measures of life history theory can predict classification into offending groups based on Moffitt's developmental taxonomy. The current study provided a partial test of classification predictions using the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescence to Adult Health study ( n = 12,012). Results of multivariable regression analyses indicated that measures associated with somatic effort and aspects of the developmental environment were predictive of group classification, but measures associated with reproductive effort were not. Implications for evolutionary criminology and traditional criminology are discussed.

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Parental Social Bonds and Adolescents’ Convictions

Abstract: This is the accepted manuscript (post-print version) of the article. Contentwise, the post-print version is identical to the final published version, but there may be differences in typography and layout.

Cited by 4 publications

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Linking the Risky Behaviour of Fathers and Their Children

Linking the Risky Behaviour of Fathers and Their Children

Measuring the association between fathers’ involvement and risky behaviours in adolescence

Predicting Moffitt's Developmental Taxonomy of Antisocial Behavior Using Life History Theory: A Partial Test of the Evolutionary Taxonomy

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