TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2015//
TI  - Life strain, social control, social learning, and delinquency: the effects of gender, age, and family SES among Chinese adolescents
JO  - International journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology
A1  - Bao, Wan-Ning
A1  - Haas, Ain
A1  - Xie, Yunping
SP  - 1446
EP  - 1469
VL  - 60
IS  - 12
N2  - Very few studies have examined the pathways to delinquency and causal factors for demographic subgroups of adolescents in a different culture. This article explores the effects of gender, age, and family socioeconomic status (SES) in an integrated model of strain, social control, social learning, and delinquency among a sample of Chinese adolescents. ANOVA is used to check for significant differences between categories of demographic groups on the variables in the integrated model, and the differential effects of causal factors in the theoretical path models are examined. Further tests of interaction effects are conducted to compare path coefficients between "high-risk" youths (i.e., male, mid-teen, and low family SES adolescents) and other subgroups. The findings identified similar pathways to delinquency across subgroups and clarified the salience of causal factors for male, mid-teen, and low SES adolescents in a different cultural context.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0306-624X
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0306624X15577162
ID  - ref1
ER  -