Study On The Deviant Behaviors, Self-control And The Influencing Factors Of Juvenile Delinquents

Employing a self-designed survey, the author has investigated the deviant behaviors of juvenile delinquents(male) and analyzed how the factors, such as the self-control ability , the personality, the attribution, the self-efficacy and, etc, correlate with deviant behaviors.377 juvenile delinquents(male) aged from 14 to 18 have involved in this study. They completed such things as EPQ, General self-Efficacy questionnaire, Nowicki-strckland locus of control questionnaire, Self-control questionnaire, and deviant behaviors questionnaire. These questionnaires also been applied to 142 students from the junior grade three to the senior grade two. The results showed:1) Compared with the students, the juvenile delinquents have more deviant behaviors which contain a lot of violent aggression. Fighting and running away from home may predict serious deviant behaviors.2) the difference of self-control ability, the personality, the attribution, the self-efficacy significant between the juvenile delinquents and the students. The juvenile delinquents have less self-control ability and self-efficiacy, they tend to use external locus of control, and they are inflexible.3) To the juvenile delinquents ,there exits significant positive relationship between deviant behaviors and psychoricism (EPQ-P), significant negative relationship between deviant behaviors and and self-control ability. The one who has more deviant behaviors is more inflexible and has less self-control ability;4) To the juvenile delinquents ,there exits significant positive relationship between the self-control ability and the self-efficacy, internal locus of control. There exits significant negative relationship between the self-control ability and and psychoricism (EPQ-P);5) To the juvenile delinquents ,there exits significant positive relationship between the self-efficacy and the internal locus of control, extroversion (EPQ-E). There exits significant negative relationship between the self-efficacy and and psychoricism (EPQ-P).