title: Adolescent stealers' and nonstealers' social problem-solving skills.
abstract: Eleven adolescents with a history of stealing in the past year were compared to 11 nonstealers on social problem-solving skills. The stealers showed a tendency not to consider the passage of time necessary for solving social problems on the Means-Ends Problem Solving (MEPS) test. In addition, adolescents who exhibited delinquency tendencies, as measured by the Jesness Inventory, showed a cognitive bias for generating ineffective solutions to hypothetical social problems. Implications for treatment are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa 35487-0348, USA.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Greening
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D007604:Juvenile Delinquency / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000523:psychology*; D008297:Male; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D011340:Problem Solving; D012044:Regression Analysis; D013800:Theft / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000523:psychology*