TY - JOUR PY - 1988// TI - The nature of the association between parental rejection and delinquent behavior JO - Journal of youth and adolescence A1 - Simons, R. L. A1 - Robertson, J. F. A1 - Downs, W. R. SP - 297 EP - 310 VL - 18 IS - 3 N2 - A panel design with approximately 300 adolescents was employed to investigate the relationship between parental rejection and delinquency. Previous studies have failed to control for potentially confounding family factors and have ignored the possibility that the causal priority is from delinquency to parental rejection, rather than the reverse. Parental rejection continued to show a moderate association with delinquency after relevant controls were introduced. The results were the same across sexes. LISREL was employed to estimate the parameters of the reciprocal relationship between parental rejection and delinquency. Analysis indicated that the predominant causal flow is from parental rejection to delinquency.
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LA - en SN - 0047-2891 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF02139043 ID - ref1 ER -