The entire thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file; a non-technical public abstract appears in the public.pdf file. Title from PDF of title page (University of Missouri--Columbia, viewed on December 21, 2009). Thesis advisor: Dr. Nicole Campione-Barr. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Oregon State University, 2003. / Typescript (photocopy). Includes bibliographical references (leaves 93-96). Also available via the World Wide Web.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--West Virginia University, 2001. / Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains v, 85 p. : ill. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 62-75).

Thesis (M.A.)--Briercrest Biblical Seminary, 1999. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 102-108).

Thesis (D. Min.)--Northern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2000. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 194-196).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2002. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 214-233).

Parent-adolescent connection is considered a core parenting component influencing adolescent psychosocial development. When the connection is poor, the adolescent has an increased risk of developing depressive symptoms and behavioral problems. Non-family socialization experiences increase in importance as the quality of family experiences decreases and may protect adolescents with low family connectedness from demonstrating depressive symptoms and behavioral problems. The school is one context that may provide socialization experiences to promote continued development for early adolescents. Stronger levels of connection to the school have been related to decreased prevalence of adolescent problem behaviors such as delinquency. The religious community represents another context in which early adolescents may develop important connections. This context is particularly important to study as over half of all adolescents in the U.S. report attending church services weekly and/or are involved in a church youth group and approximately 60% of adolescents report their faith is important to them. Research examining adolescent feelings of connection to their religious group and how this relates to delinquent behaviors and depressive symptoms, however, is lacking. The present study explored the cross-sectional contribution of adolescent connections to the family, school and religious contexts to the depressive symptoms and delinquent behaviors of a sample of 167 middle school students. Three aspects of religious connectedness (i.e., youth leader, congregation member, and spiritual connectedness) were found to uniquely contribute to the occurrence of early adolescent outcomes. Specifically, youth leader and spiritual connectedness uniquely contributed to early adolescent engagement in more serious delinquent behaviors. Congregation member and spiritual connectedness contributed to the occurrence of early adolescent depressive symptoms. Additionally, all three types of religious connectedness buffered the relationship between family connectedness and more serious delinquent behaviors. That is, high levels of religious connectedness protected early adolescents from engaging in the problem behaviors. Unexpectedly, an exacerbating relationship was demonstrated between school connectedness and youth leader connectedness as well as spiritual connectedness on early adolescent less serious delinquent behaviors. Findings are discussed from the perspectives of Social Control Theory and Attachment Theory. / text

The effects of parental alcohol dependence on children have been well documented in the literature. Parental alcohol dependence has been linked with negative developmental outcomes such as low self-esteem, depression, anxiety, difficulties in school and conduct problems in children (Johnson, 2001). However, some studies have indicated that there may be some protective factors in the environments of children of alcohol dependent parents (COAs) which promote positive developmental outcomes for such children (Menees & Sergin, 2000). The current study focused on parental supervision as a protective family factor that is linked to conduct competence in COAs. The participants’ perception of parental supervision was measured using the Parental Monitoring Assessment and their level of conduct competence was measured using the Weinberger Adjustment Inventory. The Weinberger Adjustment Inventory includes four domains of conduct competence: suppression of aggression, consideration of others, impulse control and responsibility. The main hypothesis of the study was that the participants’ perception of parental supervision correlates with their level of conduct competence with regards to the four domains. The sample included twenty adolescent males who were recruited through their fathers’ involvement in an alcohol rehabilitation program. The results indicated that the participants’ perceptions of parental supervision correlate with levels of conduct competence in the domains of consideration of others, there is no correlation between perception of parental supervision and conduct competence in the domain of responsibility, whilst there is a negative correlation between perception of parental supervision and conduct competence in the domains of suppression of aggression and impulse control. / Thesis (M.A.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 2009.

Šeima – svarbiausia terpė, kurioje vaikas gali sėkmingai augti ir vystytis. Tai yra pirmoji aplinka, perteikianti tam tikrus elgesio modelius, kuriuos įsisąmonina ir perima vaikas. Pripažįstama, kad šeimoje formuojasi ne tik socialus, bet ir asocialus vaikų elgesys, kuris yra smerkiamas, nepriimtinas ir traktuojamas kaip deviantinis. Šeimoje yra gana daug nepalankių asmenybės formavimosi sąlygų. Tenka pripažinti, kad nepilnamečių deviantinio elgesio formavimuisi turi įtakos šeimos tipas ir aplinka. Išsiaiškinta, kad nepriimtinu elgesiu pasižymintys vaikai yra ne tik iš socialinės rizikos, nedarnių bei struktūriškai nepilnų šeimų, bet ir iš darnių bei emigrantų šeimų, kurios Lietuvoje yra pakankamai mažai tyrinėtos. Nepageidaujamas vaikų elgesys gali atsirasti ir dėl tėvų auklėjimo klaidų. Tėvų ir vaikų tarpusavio santykiai, bausmių pobūdis bei jų griežtumas, netinkama vaikų elgesio kontrolė ir priežiūra neabejotinai sąlygoja deviantinio elgesio formavimąsi. Akivaizdu, kad kuo daugiau nepalankių veiksnių vienu metu veikia vaiko asmenybę, tuo didesnė elgesio nukrypimų tikimybė. Todėl savaime suprantama, kad deviantinio elgesio pamatas yra šeima, prie kurio vėliau prisijungia mokykla, draugai, žiniasklaida ir kt. Magistro baigiamajame darbe, remiantis moksline literatūra, Lietuvos teisės aktais, statistikos bei ESPAD tyrimų duomenimis, supažindinama su deviantinio elgesio samprata, pateikiama nepilnamečių deviantinio elgesio apraiškos Lietuvos visuomenėje bei išanalizuojama... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / Family is the most important environment for the successful growth and development of the child. It is the first environment transmitting particular behaviour models which the child assimilates and takes over. It is accepted that family influences not only social behaviour but asocial one as well, which is denounced, unacceptable and treated as deviant. There are distinguished a lot of unfavourable personality development conditions in the family. It must be admitted that the type and environment of the family may influence the formation of the teenagers’ deviant behaviour. It was ascertained that children whose behaviour is unacceptable commonly come from asocial, problematic, disharmonious and not full in structure families. Also it should be admitted that the formation of deviant personality is influenced by the family of emigrants, but there are few analyses in this sphere in Lithuania. Unwanted behaviour may also appear because of the parents’ upbringing mistakes. The formation of deviant behaviour is influenced by the relationships between parents and children, the kind of punishment and its severity, inappropriate control of child’s behaviour. It is obvious that the more unfavourable factors influence the child’s personality at one time; the bigger chance of the deviant behaviour appears. Consequently, the basis of the deviant behaviour comes from the family, and later this behaviour is influenced by school, friends, mass media and etc. In this final master’s work with... [to full text]

Sunkiai auklėjami, rizikos grupės, asocialaus, deviantinio ar delinkventinio elgesio, nusižengę ar nusikaltę vaikai – terminai, kuriuos naudoja teoretikai ir praktikai kalbėdami apie vaikus dėl savo elgesio tampančiais problema tiek sau patiems, tiek valstybei bei visuomenei. Dėl šios priežasties terminas „probleminio elgesio vaikai“ yra pakankamai aiškus ir platus. Jame „ telpa“ ir vaikai, kurių elgesys neatitinka visuomenėje nusistovėjusių elgesio normų ir yra vertinamas, kaip baustina veika, nusikaltimas, ir vaikai, linkę pažeisti priimtas teisės , moralės, elgesio normas, egzistuojančias tradicijas ir papročius, tačiau neįvykdantys rimtų teisės pažeidimų, nusikaltimų. / Sustaining scientific and methodical literature I discussed teenagers psychological issues. I looked at the documents which are regulating social help presentation. I discussed social help’s problematic issues for teenagers in the schools. I explored how social help is organized for problematic behaviour teenagers. Ten respondents was participating in the assay and giving social help to the teenagers. I did the assay in interview method. After I summarised the assay I found that. Giving social help to the problematic behaviour students you also have to communicate with their parents. To give the best social help to the problematic behaviour students specialists has to work in the team.