Delinquent Tendencies and Participation in an Organized Sports Program.

Yiannakis, Andrew

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ERIC Number: EJ161243

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Publication Date: 1976

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Delinquent Tendencies and Participation in an Organized Sports Program

Yiannakis, Andrew

Research Quarterly, 47, 4, 845-9, Dec 76

In testing the hypotheses of relationship between failure to complete an athletic program and a delinquent psychosocial profile, it was concluded that interaction of a delinquent disposition with structured pressures in an organized sports program may have been the cause of high dropout rate. (JD)

Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, Athletics, Delinquency, Delinquent Behavior, Disadvantaged, Dropout Research, Participation, Poverty, Recreational Programs, Responses

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