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Comparison of Family Power Structure and Identity Style Between Delinquent and Non-Delinquent Juveniles
BACKGROUND: Adolescence denotes a time in which youth begins to experience dangerous behaviors like substance use and delinquency. OBJECTIVES: In this study, we investigated the family power structure and identity style in delinquent and non-delinquent juveniles residing in Tehran, Iran. MATERIALS A...
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Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4733299/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26834795 http://dx.doi.org/10.17795/ijpbs-1446 |
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author | Khodabakhshi Koolaee, Anahita Rahmatizadeh, Masoumeh Shaghelanilor, Hossein Pocock, Lesley |
author_facet | Khodabakhshi Koolaee, Anahita Rahmatizadeh, Masoumeh Shaghelanilor, Hossein Pocock, Lesley |
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description | BACKGROUND: Adolescence denotes a time in which youth begins to experience dangerous behaviors like substance use and delinquency. OBJECTIVES: In this study, we investigated the family power structure and identity style in delinquent and non-delinquent juveniles residing in Tehran, Iran. MATERIALS AND METHODS: To accomplish the goal of the study, 80 adolescent delinquents of the correction and rehabilitation centers aged between 15 and 18 years were selected with convenience sampling method and 80 students of secondary school age between 15 and 18 years in Tehran, Iran in 2012. They answered the instrument of family power structure (Saidian, 2004) and identity style (ISI-6G: White et al. 1998). The obtained data were analyzed using the independent t-test, chi-square test, and Levene’s test. RESULTS: The findings indicated a significant difference between delinquent and non-delinquent juveniles with regard to family power structure, its subscales (P < 0.001), and identity style (P < 0.001). Moreover, the informational identity style was associated with lower levels of delinquency. In addition, a diffuse-evident identity style was related to the delinquency. CONCLUSIONS: These results emphasize that the inappropriate decision-making process pattern in a family has a significant effect on deviant behavior and identity style in adolescents. So, family power structure can be considered in therapeutic interventions (prevention and treatment) for adolescent delinquency. |
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spelling | pubmed-47332992016-02-01 Comparison of Family Power Structure and Identity Style Between Delinquent and Non-Delinquent Juveniles Khodabakhshi Koolaee, Anahita Rahmatizadeh, Masoumeh Shaghelanilor, Hossein Pocock, Lesley Iran J Psychiatry Behav Sci Original Article BACKGROUND: Adolescence denotes a time in which youth begins to experience dangerous behaviors like substance use and delinquency. OBJECTIVES: In this study, we investigated the family power structure and identity style in delinquent and non-delinquent juveniles residing in Tehran, Iran. MATERIALS AND METHODS: To accomplish the goal of the study, 80 adolescent delinquents of the correction and rehabilitation centers aged between 15 and 18 years were selected with convenience sampling method and 80 students of secondary school age between 15 and 18 years in Tehran, Iran in 2012. They answered the instrument of family power structure (Saidian, 2004) and identity style (ISI-6G: White et al. 1998). The obtained data were analyzed using the independent t-test, chi-square test, and Levene’s test. RESULTS: The findings indicated a significant difference between delinquent and non-delinquent juveniles with regard to family power structure, its subscales (P < 0.001), and identity style (P < 0.001). Moreover, the informational identity style was associated with lower levels of delinquency. In addition, a diffuse-evident identity style was related to the delinquency. CONCLUSIONS: These results emphasize that the inappropriate decision-making process pattern in a family has a significant effect on deviant behavior and identity style in adolescents. So, family power structure can be considered in therapeutic interventions (prevention and treatment) for adolescent delinquency. Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences 2015-12-23 2015-12 /pmc/articles/PMC4733299/ /pubmed/26834795 http://dx.doi.org/10.17795/ijpbs-1446 Text en Copyright © 2015, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits copy and redistribute the material just in noncommercial usages, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Original Article Khodabakhshi Koolaee, Anahita Rahmatizadeh, Masoumeh Shaghelanilor, Hossein Pocock, Lesley Comparison of Family Power Structure and Identity Style Between Delinquent and Non-Delinquent Juveniles |
title | Comparison of Family Power Structure and Identity Style Between Delinquent and Non-Delinquent Juveniles |
title_full | Comparison of Family Power Structure and Identity Style Between Delinquent and Non-Delinquent Juveniles |
title_fullStr | Comparison of Family Power Structure and Identity Style Between Delinquent and Non-Delinquent Juveniles |
title_full_unstemmed | Comparison of Family Power Structure and Identity Style Between Delinquent and Non-Delinquent Juveniles |
title_short | Comparison of Family Power Structure and Identity Style Between Delinquent and Non-Delinquent Juveniles |
title_sort | comparison of family power structure and identity style between delinquent and non-delinquent juveniles |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4733299/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26834795 http://dx.doi.org/10.17795/ijpbs-1446 |
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