title: Life Strain, Social Control, Social Learning, and Delinquency: The Effects of Gender, Age, and Family SES Among Chinese Adolescents.
abstract: 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.
authors: Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis, USA wbao@iupui.edu.
authors: Wan-Ning
authors: WN
authors: Bao
authors: Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis, USA.
authors: Ain
authors: A
authors: Haas
authors: Tsinghua University, Beijing, People's Republic of China.
authors: Yunping
authors: Y
authors: Xie
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000367:Age Factors; D002681:China; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007604:Juvenile Delinquency; D008297:Male; D012737:Sex Factors; D012923:Social Class; D012927:Social Control, Informal; D000067570:Social Learning; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000523:psychology*
keywords: Chinese adolescent groups; control; delinquency; learning; strain