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A Mutual Hostility Explanation for the Co-Occurrence of Delinquency and Depressive Mood in Adolescence
- Source :
- Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology. 45:1399-1412
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2016.
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Abstract
- Different interpersonal experiences are related to delinquency and depressive mood. In many studies, delinquency has been associated with exposing others to hostility, while depressive mood has been associated with being a victim of others' hostility. In this study, we proposed that adolescents with a co-occurrence of high delinquency and depressive mood may be both perpetrators and victims in their relations with parents at home, peers and teachers at school, and other people encountered in leisure time. We studied a normative sample of 1452 mid-adolescents (50.61% boys and 49.38% girls). Cluster analyses found a group with a co-occurrence of high delinquency and high depressive mood. Adolescents in this cluster group were highest on being exposed to hostility, exposing others to hostility, and being involved in mutually hostile interactions with others in different everyday contexts. The findings were especially strong when we examined being a victim and a perpetrator across contexts. The results were similar for boys and girls. We conclude that the co-occurrence of high delinquency and depressive mood among some adolescents is intimately linked to the mutually hostile interactions that these adolescents experience in their everyday interpersonal contexts.
- Subjects :
- Male
Depressive mood
050103 clinical psychology
medicine.medical_specialty
Adolescent
education
Hostility
Interpersonal communication
Developmental psychology
Interpersonal relationship
Developmental and Educational Psychology
Juvenile delinquency
medicine
Humans
Interpersonal Relations
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Crime Victims
Depression
Aggression
Public health
05 social sciences
Co-occurrence
Psychiatry and Mental health
Adolescent Behavior
Juvenile Delinquency
Female
medicine.symptom
Psychology
050104 developmental & child psychology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15732835 and 00910627
- Volume :
- 45
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....ed5e2749d6d9869b95d8a7d68b8f2838