Parenting practices, self-control and anti-social behaviors: Meta-analytic structural equation modeling

HD Tehrani, S Yamini - Journal of Criminal Justice, 2020 - Elsevier
Purpose This study aims to clarify the nexus between effective parenting practices, low self-
control, and anti-social behaviors in Gottfredson and Hirschi's General Theory of Crime …

Parenting and self-control across early to late adolescence: A three-level meta-analysis

JB Li, YE Willems, FM Stok, M Deković… - Perspectives on …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Self-control plays a significant role in positive youth development. Although numerous self-
control challenges occur during adolescence, some adolescents control themselves better …

Testing criminological theory through causal mediation analysis: Current status and future directions

GD Walters, JT Mandracchia - Journal of Criminal Justice, 2017 - Elsevier
Purpose The purpose of this paper was three-fold: 1. Present an overview of the core
requirements of causal mediation analysis; 2. Evaluate the quantity and quality of current …

Self-control versus psychopathy: A head-to-head test of general theories of antisociality

M DeLisi, J Tostlebe, K Burgason… - Youth violence and …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Self-control and psychopathy are prominent general theories of antisociality that, although
present a very similar type of individual, have not often been studied in tandem, and few …

The influence of different dimensions of the parent–child relationship in childhood as longitudinal predictors of substance use in late adolescence. The mediating role …

J Rodríguez-Ruiz, I Zych, D Ribeaud… - International journal of …, 2023 - Springer
This study examined longitudinal links between several dimensions of parent–child
relationship and adolescent substance use, and tested the role of self-control in mediating …

Self-control and deviance: A test of the general theory of crime in Argentina

A Bobbio, K Arbach, AT Vazsonyi - Victims & Offenders, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Gottfredson and Hirschi's General Theory of Crime (GTC) has been one of the
most cited and tested theories in criminology. It posits to be in effect transcultural in its …

Effortful control, exposure to community violence, and aggressive behavior: Exploring cross‐lagged relations in adolescence

C Esposito, D Bacchini, N Eisenberg… - Aggressive …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Self‐regulation processes and violent contexts play an important role in predicting
adolescents' aggressive behavior; less clear is how all three constructs are linked to each …

Problems of cross-cultural criminology no more! Testing two central tenets of self-control theory across 28 nations

AT Vazsonyi, AJ Ksinan, M Javakhishvili - Journal of criminal justice, 2021 - Elsevier
Purpose The current investigation tested two tenets from self-control theory regarding its
cross-national validity and applicability, namely the extent to which (1) parenting behaviors …

Testing the general theory of crime with the circumplex model: Curvilinear relations between family functioning and self-control

HS Gomes, M Gouveia-Pereira - Deviant behavior, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
The relation between family and low self-control is usually studied within linear hypotheses.
In this study, we intended to test the familial origin of self-control under a curvilinear …

Bullying and cyberbullying in Turkish adolescents: Direct and indirect effects of parenting processes

AT Vazsonyi, G Ksinan Jiskrova… - Journal of Cross …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
The current investigation sought to (a) report on the prevalence of bullying and cyberbullying
perpetration among Turkish youth;(b) test a predictive model of bullying and cyberbullying …