Title: Family of origin, personality, and self-reported delinquency.
Authors: Heaven, Patrick C. L.
Abstract: Examines whether perceptions of an adolescent's family and individual personality traits are related to delinquency, and determines the effect of intervening variables. Problem of juvenile delinquency; Psycho-social perspectives on the causes of delinquency; Respondents as second year high school students in New South Wales, Australia; Role of family communication in delinquency.
Subjects: AUSTRALIA; JUVENILE delinquency; FAMILIES; PERSONALITY
Publication: Journal of Adolescence, 1994, Vol 17, Issue 5, p445
ISSN: 0140-1971
Publication type: Academic Journal
DOI: 10.1006/jado.1994.1038

Family of origin, personality, and self-reported delinquency.

Heaven, Patrick C. L.