Sex differences in longitudinal pathways from parenting to delinquency

Abstract

In the current study, we examined longitudinally whether boys and girls differed in pathways from parenting to delinquency. Longitudinal mediational models were tested for boys and girls separately in which three parenting dimensions (i.e., monitoring, limit setting, and the quality of the parent-adolescent relationship) were hypothesized to influence adolescents' level of self-control, delinquent attitudes, peer delinquency, and time spent in criminogenic settings, which in turn, were hypothesized to affect delinquency. Using data of 603 adolescents (11-17 years of age at T1) we found mean level differences between boys and girls in parental monitoring, parental limit-setting, self-control, delinquent attitudes, and peer delinquency. The results suggest furthermore that the model linking parenting to delinquency is similar for boys and girls. We found, however, that the indirect effect from the quality of the parent-adolescent relationship through self-control is stronger for girls than for boys.

Statistical analysis of childhood and early adolescent externalizing behaviors in a middle low income country

“…Risk factors of delinquency are parenting style, family alcoholism [83], the influence of siblings [84], peer affiliation or pressure, peer rejection, genetic, poverty [85], and environmental factors. The effect of parenting style on delinquent behavior is the same for males and females [86], surprisingly, parental monitoring does not affect the delinquency behavior in boys [87]. Moreover, no gender difference was observed for delinquent behavior [88,89], which is contrary to the findings of [90] that attributed high susceptibility to boys.…”

Parental Control as a Stimulus for Youth Control: Mediating the Parental Knowledge–Child Delinquency Relationship With Cognitive Impulsivity

“…This research question was addressed with three waves of data and a causal mediation analysis in which parental knowledge served as the independent variable, future offending functioned as the dependent variable, and NT, a facet of PCT, and CI, a facet of RCT, were positioned as mediator variables. Controls were then implemented for basic demographic characteristics, socio-economic status, and family structure, which research indicates play a major role in the parental knowledge–delinquency association (Hope et al, 2003; Janssen et al, 2017), and unsupervised routine activities, which have been found to mediate the parental knowledge–delinquency relationship (Walters, 2018). Parental support served as a second independent variable in this study as a means of testing the specificity of the parental knowledge effect.…”

Gender-Based Psychosocial Differences in a Sample of Young Offenders

“…https://doi.org/10.1177/0306624X20952403 4 girls with disruptive and delinquent behaviours must be payed. Biological sex is a consistent predictor of delinquent behaviour: Being a male is considered as a risk factor for adolescent delinquency (Janssen, Eichelsheim, Deković, & Bruinsma, 2017;Kazdin, Kraemer, Kessler, Kupfer, & Offord, 1997).…”

“…According to the gender role expectations, parenting and pathways theories (Janssen et al, 2017), parents may be more protective of their daughters, who receive more supervision and discipline than boys do. However, a large number of studies have found that the associations between parenting and delinquency are similar for boys and girls (Hoeve, Dubas, Eichelsheim, Van der Laan, Smeenk, & Gerris, 2009).…”