Jessor's problem behavior theory
Cross-national evidence from Hungary, the Netherlands, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, Turkey, and the United States
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9786175 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alexander T Vazsonyi (0000-0001-7163-1705, Auburn University, corresponding author), Pan Chen (0000-0001-8385-7760, Auburn University), Dusty D Jenkins (Auburn University), Esra Burcu (Hacettepe University), Ginesa Torrente (Universidad de Murcia), Chuen-Jim Sheu (National Taipei University) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 1779-1791 |
| Publication date | 2010-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Developmental Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0012-1649 • E-ISSN: 1939-0599 |
| Publisher | American Psychological Association (APA) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1037/a0020682 |
| PMID | 20873922 |
| OpenAlex | W2014005983 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 20 |
Jessor (2008) has recently called attention to description versus explanation in cross-cultural and cross-national comparative scholarship on adolescent development, particularly, the etiology of adolescent problem behaviors. In the current study, we were interested in testing to what extent problem behavior theory replicated in samples of 10,310 adolescents from 8 distinct developmental contexts, including Asian, Eastern and Western European, North American, and Eurasian/Muslim cultures. Path analyses by country samples as well as follow-up multigroup analyses provided evidence of great similarities across cultures in the links among two protective factor domains (controls protection and support protection), three risk factor domains (models risk, opportunity risk, and vulnerability risk), and the problem behavior syndrome, operationalized by vandalism, general deviance, school misconduct, theft, and assault measures. This evidence adds to a growing body of scholarship that provides support for similarities in explanation, despite many observed differences in description
Criminology · Cross-cultural · Developmental psychology · Deviance (statistics · Operationalization · Political science · Scholarship · Structural equation modeling · Vulnerability (computing · Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development · Cultural Differences and Values · Psychology · Social Psychology
‘Which road will I take?’ Predictors of risk-taking behaviour among young backpackers
Applying Problem Behavior Theory in a Developing Arabic Country
Age at first alcohol use and weapon carrying among adolescents
Emerging Adults’ Psychopathology in Seven Countries
The Explanation of Adolescent Delinquent Behaviors Based on Jessor's Problem Behavior Theory (PBT) in Iran
Prevalence and predictors of alcohol and drug use among secondary school students in Botswana
Traditional, Cyber and Combined Bullying Roles
Who Is Exposed to Harmful Online Content? The Role of Risk and Protective Factors Among Czech, Finnish, and Spanish Adolescents
Parsing Protection and Risk for Problem Behavior Versus Pro-social Behavior Among US and Chinese Adolescents
Methods and Data Analysis for Cross-Cultural Research
Covariance Structure Analysis
Environments in developmental perspective
Adolescent Pregnancy and Childbearing
Testing Structural Equation Models
Negotiating Adolescence in Times of Social Change
An Empirical Test of a General Theory of Crime
Distress and Restraint as Superordinate Dimensions of Self‐Reported Adjustment
Parents/Peers, and Delinquency
The Perceived Social Contexts of Adolescents' Misconduct
Family Relationships and Adolescent Psychosocial Outcomes
Exotic Enterprise No More? Adolescent Reports of Family and Parenting Processes From Youth in Four Countries
Adolescent Problem Behavior in China and the United States
The Importance of Family and School Domains in Adolescent Deviance
Rural and Non-Rural African American Youth
Testing whether correlation matrices are different from each other
A cross-cultural study of family and peer correlates of adolescent misconduct
On the fit of models to covariances and methodology to the Bulletin
Time of first intercourse
Alternative Ways of Assessing Model Fit
| Citations per year | 0.75 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2014 - 2022 (9) |
| Highly cited | No |