ERIC Number: EJ1321506
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2022-Jan
Pages: 19
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ISSN: ISSN-0044-118X
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Self-Efficacy in Parents and Children and Its Relationship to Future Delinquent Behavior in Children
Youth & Society, v54 n1 p104-122 Jan 2022
A moderated mediation analysis was performed on 3,600 (1,829 boys and 1,771 girls) adolescents from the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (LSAC). Results from a path analysis revealed that child self-efficacy mediated the relationship between mother control self-efficacy and child delinquency in girls but not in boys and that it mediated the relationship between father control self-efficacy and child delinquency in both boys and girls, with the effect being stronger in girls. Alternately, the direct effect from parental control self-efficacy to child delinquency was stronger in boys than girls. These results suggest that while girls may be discouraged from engaging in delinquency by modeling the self-efficacy of their parents, boys may more likely be dissuaded from delinquency by parenting factors other than modeling.
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Children, Adolescents, Parent Child Relationship, Parenting Styles, Discipline, Correlation, Delinquency, Gender Differences, Role Models, Mothers, Fathers, Longitudinal Studies, Prevention, Foreign Countries
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Australia
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