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      Comparison Between Family Power Structure and the Quality of Parent-Child Interaction Among the Delinquent and Non-Delinquent Adolescents

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          Abstract

          Background:

          Few studies indicate that most behavioral problems are due to family dysfunction and inappropriate family environment. It seems that the family of the delinquent adolescent is unbalanced in the power structure and parenting style.

          Objectives:

          The present study compares the family power structure and parent-child relationship quality in delinquent and non-delinquent young subjects in Tehran.

          Patients and Methods:

          Eighty students of secondary schools aged between 15 and 18 in Tehran were enrolled with cluster sampling method and 80 delinquent adolescents of the Correction and Rehabilitation Centers aged between 15 and 18 were chosen with a convenience sampling method. They responded to an instrument of family power structure (Child–parents relationship inventory). Data was compared between these two groups by utilizing the independent and dependent t-test and Levene’s test.

          Results:

          The findings indicated there is a significant difference between delinquent and non-delinquent adolescents in family power structure and its subscales (P < 0.001) and father-child relationship quality (P < 0.005). Also, there is no statistically significant difference between these two groups in mother-child relationship quality (P < 0.005). Besides, the results revealed that delinquent adolescents were significantly different regarding the quality of parent-child relationship (P < 0.001).

          Conclusions:

          These results emphasize that an inappropriate decision making process pattern in a family has a significant effect on deviant behavior in adolescents. The fathers’ parenting is more strongly linked to their sons’ delinquency. So, family power structure and parent-child relationship can be considered in therapeutic interventions (prevention and treatment) for adolescents’ delinquency.

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          Family Structure, Family Processes, and Adolescent Delinquency: The Significance of Parental Absence Versus Parental Gender

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            FAMILY STRUCTURE TRANSITIONS AND MATERNAL PARENTING STRESS.

            Data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (N = 4,176) are used to examine family structure transitions and maternal parenting stress. Using multilevel modeling, we find that mothers who exit coresidential relationships with biological fathers or enter coresidential relationships with nonbiological fathers report higher levels of parenting stress than mothers in stable coresidential relationships. Mothers who enter coresidential relationships with biological fathers report lower levels of parenting stress than mothers who remain single. Mothers' resources, especially their relationships with biological fathers, account for most of the associations between transitions and parenting stress, with posttransition resources being more important than pretransition resources. Mothers with high levels of education are less affected by transitions than mothers with less education.
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              Maternal and paternal parenting styles: unique and combined links to adolescent and early adult delinquency.

              The present study examines the cross-sectional and longitudinal associations between fathers' and mothers' parenting styles and male and female delinquency using a sample of 330 Dutch families with a mid or late adolescent son or daughter (ages 14-22), followed across two measurement waves with a 5-year interval. Parenting styles of fathers and mothers were linked to delinquency. A significant parenting style by sex interaction was found: neglectful parenting was related to higher levels of delinquency in males and permissive parenting was linked to delinquency in females. A long term relationship was found between fathers' neglectful parenting style and delinquency in males. Furthermore, results revealed that levels of delinquency were the lowest in families with at least one authoritative parent and highest in families with two neglectful parents, indicating that the level of delinquency was dependent on the combination of mother's and father's parenting styles. Copyright © 2011 The Foundation for Professionals in Services for Adolescents. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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                Journal
                Int J High Risk Behav Addict
                Int J High Risk Behav Addict
                10.5812/ijhrba
                Kowsar
                International Journal of High Risk Behaviors & Addiction
                Kowsar
                2251-8711
                2251-872X
                08 June 2014
                June 2014
                : 3
                : 2
                : e13188
                Affiliations
                [1 ]Department of Counseling, Science and Research Branch of Arak, Islamic Azad University, Arak, IR Iran
                [2 ]Department of Psychology, University of Science and Culture, Tehran, IR Iran
                Author notes
                [* ]Corresponding author: Masoumeh Rahmatizadeh, Department of Psychology, University of Science and Culture, Tehran, IR Iran. Tel: +98-9127216093, E-mail: mahshidrahmati@ 123456yahoo.com
                Article
                10.5812/ijhrba.13188
                4080484
                6e5b8305-5e2a-479a-8ddc-d30f311841bb
                Copyright © 2014, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences; Published by Kowsar Corp.

                This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

                History
                : 04 August 2013
                : 27 January 2014
                : 08 March 2014
                Categories
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                parenting,parent-child relations,delinquency
                parenting, parent-child relations, delinquency

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