Parenting and Stability of Self-Control
| dc.contributor.advisor | Gottfredson, Denise | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | Tian, Ying | en_US |
| dc.contributor.department | Criminology and Criminal Justice | en_US |
| dc.contributor.publisher | Digital Repository at the University of Maryland | en_US |
| dc.contributor.publisher | University of Maryland (College Park, Md.) | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2006-09-12T06:02:42Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2006-09-12T06:02:42Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2006-08-09 | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | The present study examined the stability of self-control and the relationship of parenting and self-control based on Gottfredson and Hirschi's general theory of crime. By using a four-wave longitudinal data coming from the D.C Family Strengthening Project, this paper adopts the appropriate statistical tool for latent variables (Mplus) to explore the rank stability of self-control among a minority dominated sample aged from 9 to 11. This study also does an exploratory test of the source of self-control. The causal impact of parenting factors such as supervision, discipline, and caring on self-control are tested by using a sample of children aged from 7 to 8. The results show that relative stability of observed self-control is moderate, while it becomes high when measurement errors are controlled. Also discipline and monitoring is the most important parenting variable to increase self-control level of children during their early ages. | en_US |
| dc.format.extent | 308760 bytes | |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1903/3905 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | |
| dc.subject.pqcontrolled | Sociology, Criminology and Penology | en_US |
| dc.title | Parenting and Stability of Self-Control | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
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