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The Relationship Between Bad Peer Interaction And Adolescent Risk Behavior: The Intermediary Role Of School Association

Posted on:2018-05-22Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:J RenFull Text:PDF
GTID:2355330542963158Subject:Education
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Adolescence is a period of high risk taking.Due to the physical and mental development of young people has not yet mature,risk taking will have different degrees of negative impact on the healthy development of himself or herself an d others.It's severity can be ordinary bad behavior,such as violation of school norms,social morality,can also be developed into anti-social behavior,or even c riminal behavior.To a certain extent,juvenile delinquency is the result of the de velopment of risk taking from quantitative development to qualitative change.Th erefore,as a critical period of learning and growth,it is of great significance to identify and prevent young people's risk taking.Companions and schools as an indispensable social and environmental factor in the process of adolescents have an important impact on the risk taking of ad olescents.School connectedness refers to set up a close relationship between the individual and the school,teachers,students,and the state that take the initiative to put into a study.Although previous studies have confirmed the relationship b etween associating with bad companions and risk taking,school connectedness an d risk taking,but few studies have explored the relationship between poor count erparts and school connectedness,nor have they associated the relationship betwe en associating with bad companions,school connectedness and adolescent risk ta king.Therefore,the purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between associating with bad companions,school connectedness and risk taking,and furt her explore the intermediary role of school connectedness.Based on the previous literature research,the purpose of this study mainly includes the following aspe cts:(1)Explore the differences of demographic variables in adolescents associat e with having problem behavior adolescent,school connectedness and risk taking.(2)Explore the relationship between associating with having problem behav ior adolescent,school connectedness and risk taking in adolescents.(3)Explore the intermediary role of school connectedness in the relationshi p between associating with having problem behavior adolescent and risk taking.In this study,1496 students in two secondary schools in Xi'an were surveye d by the questionnaire,the "Multi-domain Adventure Questionnaire"?"Adolescents Poor Communication Peer Scale" and "School Linkage Scale" as the measuremen t tool.A total of 1372 valid questionnaires were recovered.After analysis and di scussion,the conclusions as follows:(1)The risk taking of adolescents has a certain difference in demographic variables.The risk taking of boys are generally higher than those of girls,and t he risk taking is Inverted U type trend with the increase of grade.The risk taki ng is decreased in the third grade of middle school,Reached the highest level i n the second year of senior school.(2)Adolescents with poor peer interaction in gender differences were not significant,in the grade was inverted U-shaped trend..(3)There were no significant differences in gender differences among ado lescent schools,and grade differences were significant and decreased with the inc rease of grade.(4)Having problem behavior adolescent and school connection can signifi cantly predict the risk of young people behavior;and adolescent problem behavio r through the school link between the teacher support and school ownership of t he two factors of the intermediary effect indirectly affect the young people's risk-taking behavior.
Keywords/Search Tags:adolescents, adolescent problem behavior, school connections, risk ta king
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