In Search of a Mechanism: Mediating the Perceived Parental Support-Delinquency Relationship with Child Empathy

Autor/in	Walters, Glenn D.
Titel	In Search of a Mechanism: Mediating the Perceived Parental Support-Delinquency Relationship with Child Empathy
Quelle	In: Journal of Moral Education, 51 (2022) 3, S.336-352 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Walters, Glenn D.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0305-7240
DOI	10.1080/03057240.2021.1872511
Schlagwörter	Empathy; Parent Child Relationship; Moral Values; Juvenile Justice; Path Analysis; Adolescents; Prediction; Correlation; Prevention; Foreign Countries; Adolescent Attitudes; Parenting Styles; Longitudinal Studies; Measures (Individuals); Gender Differences; Age Groups; Delinquency; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Empathie; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Moral value; Ethischer Wert; Jugendgerichtshilfe; Pfadanalyse; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Vorhersage; Korrelation; Prävention; Vorbeugung; Ausland; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Messdaten; Geschlechterkonflikt; Age grop; Altersgruppe; Kriminalität; Australien
Abstract	The purpose of this study was to determine whether empathy is capable of mediating the relationship between perceived parental support and juvenile delinquency. This hypothesis was tested in a path analysis of 3,865 (51% male) Australian schoolchildren (mean age = 12.4 years at first wave) using three waves of data with two years between each wave. The dependent variable (juvenile delinquency) was regressed onto cross-lagged independent and mediating latent variables (perceived parental support and empathy). As predicted, the pathway running from perceived parental support to empathy to delinquency was significant, the pathway running from empathy to perceived parental support to delinquency was nonsignificant, and the difference between the two pathways was significant. These findings indicate that parental support, as perceived and reported by the child, is instrumental in promoting empathy, which, in turn, may protect the youth against future delinquency. (As Provided).
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