Gao Yunjiao, Wong Dennis S W, Yu Yanping
City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Int J Offender Ther Comp Criminol. 2016 Jan;60(1):38-61. doi: 10.1177/0306624X14547495. Epub 2014 Aug 20.
Using a sample of 1,163 adolescents from four middle schools in China, this study explores the intervening process of how adolescent maltreatment is related to delinquency within the framework of general strain theory (GST) by comparing two models. The first model is Agnew's integrated model of GST, which examines the mediating effects of social control, delinquent peer affiliation, state anger, and depression on the relationship between maltreatment and delinquency. Based on this model, with the intent to further explore the mediating effects of state anger and depression and to investigate whether their effects on delinquency can be demonstrated more through delinquent peer affiliation and social control, an extended model (Model 2) is proposed by the authors. The second model relates state anger to delinquent peer affiliation and state depression to social control. By comparing the fit indices and the significance of the hypothesized paths of the two models, the study found that the extended model can better reflect the mechanism of how maltreatment contributes to delinquency, whereas the original integrated GST model only receives partial support because of its failure to find the mediating effects of state negative emotions.
本研究以中国四所中学的1163名青少年为样本，通过比较两个模型，在一般压力理论（GST）框架内探讨青少年虐待与犯罪之间的干预过程。第一个模型是阿格纽的GST综合模型，该模型检验了社会控制、不良同伴关系、愤怒情绪和抑郁在虐待与犯罪关系中的中介作用。基于该模型，为了进一步探讨愤怒情绪和抑郁的中介作用，并研究它们对犯罪的影响是否更多地通过不良同伴关系和社会控制来体现，作者提出了一个扩展模型（模型2）。第二个模型将愤怒情绪与不良同伴关系联系起来，将抑郁情绪与社会控制联系起来。通过比较两个模型的拟合指数和假设路径的显著性，研究发现扩展模型能够更好地反映虐待导致犯罪的机制，而原始的GST综合模型仅得到部分支持，因为它未能发现负面情绪的中介作用。
