Individual and Contextual Traits as Determinants of Delinquency amongst Juveniles

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dc.contributor.advisorSharma, Seema
dc.contributor.authorSharma, Neha
dc.date.accessioned2018-05-17T10:54:43Z
dc.date.available2018-05-17T10:54:43Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.description.abstractThe present study was undertaken to investigate the individual and contextual traits as determinants of delinquency amongst juveniles. The sample comprised of 120 respondents in 16-18 years of age range, selected from observation homes of six districts, from three cultural zones of Punjab. Further the sample was distributed over two sexes i.e. 80 juvenile delinquent boys and 40 juvenile delinquent girls. A self structured sheet was used to procure information regarding the socio-personal status of the respondents. Other scales used to collect the relevant information for the study were: Eysenck’s Personality Questionnaire (Eysenck and Eysenck 1975), Cognitive Style Inventory (Jha 1985), Social Maturity Scale (Rao 1986), Emotional Maturity Scale (Singh and Bhargava 1990), Children’s Perception of Parenting Style (Pyari and Kalra 2005), Peer Pressure Scale (Saini and Singh 2012). The results revealed that majority of respondents reported accepting, overprotective and autocratic type of parenting styles. Most of the delinquents had shown psychotic and introvert personality and the most common cognitive style among delinquents was undifferentiated style. Low levels of social and emotional maturity were found in most of the delinquents. As far as gender differentiations are concerned delinquent girls had more introvert personality as compared to delinquent boys whereas delinquent boys had shown more integrated cognitive style. The study further depicted a positive significant correlation between delinquency levels and psychoticism dimension of personality while a negative significant correlation was found between delinquency levels and extraversion dimension of personality among delinquent girls. A positive significant correlation in delinquent girls was found between delinquency levels and intuitive cognitive style. A positive significant correlation was also found between delinquency levels and peer pressure among delinquent boys and girls. A negative significant correlation was found between socio-emotional maturity and delinquency level among juvenile delinquent boys and girls.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/5810046495
dc.keywordsJuvenile, Delinquency, Personality traits, Cognitive styles, Peer pressure, Perceived parenting styles, Social maturity, Emotional maturityen_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.pages85en_US
dc.publisherPunjab Agricultural University, Ludhianaen_US
dc.research.problemIndividual and Contextual Traits as Determinants of Delinquency amongst Juvenilesen_US
dc.subHuman Development and Family Studies
dc.subjectnullen_US
dc.themeIndividual and Contextual Traits as Determinants of Delinquency amongst Juvenilesen_US
dc.these.typePh.Den_US
dc.titleIndividual and Contextual Traits as Determinants of Delinquency amongst Juvenilesen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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