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Leitch, David B. – Journal of Correctional Education, 2019
The use of mental health-related intake assessments by juvenile correctional facilities as predictive measures of confinement behavior has seen limited use in recent years. This study employs the Massachusetts Youth Screening Instrument-Version 2 (MAYSI-2) and How I Think Questionnaire (HIT) as measurement tools on the same data set to assess the…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Screening Tests, Correctional Institutions, Institutionalized Persons
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Cenkseven-Önder, Fulya; Avci, Rasit; Çolakkadioglu, Oguzhan – Educational Research and Reviews, 2016
The aim of this study was to adapt the Reactive-Proactive Aggression Questionnaire (RPQ), developed to measure two dimensions of aggression which are reactive and proactive, to Turkish and test the validity and reliability of the Turkish form. The study group consisted of 278 students in four junior high schools in Adana, Turkey, and 485 students…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Aggression, Questionnaires
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Lee, DongHun; Han, Yoonsun; Park, ManSik; Roh, SeakZoon – School Psychology International, 2015
The absence of an approach which encompasses several micro-systems in Korea may leave important factors of youth risk behaviors undetected. Thus, an examination of a broad set of ecological factors within the micro-system--including individual characteristics as well as immediate family, peer, and school environments surrounding the youth--that is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Delinquency, Antisocial Behavior, Crime
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Chan, Jacob Yuichung; Fung, Annis L.; Gerstein, Lawrence H. – Psychology in the Schools, 2013
Research on aggression in the West has focused mainly on the dichotomy between proactive and reactive aggression, but not the co-occurring proactive-reactive aggression subtype, despite its prevalence. The authors investigated the differences in psychological and behavioral correlates among proactive, reactive, and proactive-reactive student…
Descriptors: Aggression, Foreign Countries, Student Behavior, Secondary School Students
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Winterrowd, Erin; Canetto, Silvia Sara; Chavez, Ernest L. – Death Studies, 2010
Friendship factors have been implicated in adolescent suicidality, but this relationship has not been verified across ethnicities. This study examined suicidality and friendship problems (i.e., social isolation, poor friendship quality, friends' school disconnection, and friends' delinquency) among Mexican American adolescents, an understudied,…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Females, Mexican Americans, Suicide
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Van Doorn, Muriel D.; Branje, Susan J. T.; Meeus, Wim H. J. – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2008
This study examines the relation between conflict resolution styles in parent-adolescent relationships and adolescent delinquency. Questionnaires about conflict resolution styles were completed by 284 early adolescents (mean age 13.3) and their parents. Adolescents also completed a questionnaire on delinquency. Hierarchical regression analyses…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Delinquency, Adolescents
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Robinson, Ross; Roberts, William L.; Strayer, Janet; Koopman, Ray – Social Development, 2007
Two groups of male adolescents, incarcerated young offenders (N = 64, mean age = 16.3 years) and a comparison group of community youth (N = 60; mean age = 16.6 years), were administered the Empathy Continuum (measuring cognitive-affective responses to persons in emotionally evocative videotaped vignettes) and questionnaire measures of empathy,…
Descriptors: Delinquency, Antisocial Behavior, Adolescents, Anxiety