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Download full textCooper, M. Lynne; And Others – 1996
Problem behaviors during adolescence can include substance use, low educational achievement, delinquent or conduct-disordered behavior, and indiscriminant, precocious, or risky sexual behavior. Despite the dissimilarities of these behaviors, some researchers believe that such actions share common underlying causes, which can be explained by the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Analysis of Covariance, Behavior Problems, Blacks
LeClair, Mary C.; Hansen, James C. – 1995
The goal of this study was to extend what is currently understood regarding attitudes toward the homeless population. The study focused on how homeless and nonhomeless adolescents attribute the causes of homelessness. Grounded in attribution theory, the study hypothesized that nonhomeless adolescents would ascribe causality to dispositional or…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Attitudes, Attribution Theory, Causal Models
Whiteside, Leanne; And Others – 1994
This study of 1,093 public high school students was designed to test an integrated theoretical model of delinquency, consisting of elements of social control and social learning theories, with LISREL procedures. The model confirmed with LISREL was very similar to the hypothesized model. The hypothesized model was fitted to data on one random…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Beliefs, Causal Models, Delinquency
