title: Parenting factors, social skills, and value commitments as precursors to school failure, involvement with deviant peers, and delinquent behavior.
abstract: Elements of social control theory were combined with social learning theory to construct a model of delinquency which specifies the manner in which parenting factors, social skills, value commitments, and problems in school contribute to association with deviant peers and involvement in delinquent behavior. The model was tested using a sample of 61 families, each of which included a seventh grader. Questionnaire responses and coded videotaped family interaction were employed as measures of study constructs. The results largely supported the proposed model.
authors.affiliation: Department of Sociology, Iowa State University, 50011, Ames, Iowa.
authors.forename: R L
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Simons
authors.forename: L B
authors.initials: LB
authors.lastname: Whitbeck
authors.forename: R D
authors.initials: RD
authors.lastname: Conger
authors.forename: K J
authors.initials: KJ
authors.lastname: Conger