Nursing Department, West China Second University Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China.
The Key Laboratory of Birth Defects and Related Diseases of Women and Children, Sichuan University, Ministry of Education, Chengdu, China.
Front Public Health. 2022 Sep 29;10:985936. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.985936. eCollection 2022.
Empirical research on the relationship between family functioning and delinquency has been sparse, although many studies have focused on the influence of family functioning on adolescent development. The current research aimed to fill this gap by exploring the influences of family functioning on adolescent delinquency and the mechanisms connecting the processes.
We derived the baseline data from a prospective observational school-based cohort Chengdu Positive Child Development (CPCD) project. Students responded to a questionnaire containing validated measures of family functioning, positive behavior recognition, and delinquent behavior. We utilized structural equation modeling and maximum likelihood estimation to test the relationships.
Across 8811 Chinese adolescents, the incidence of delinquency behaviors among Chinese adolescents was relatively low. Family functioning and positive behavior recognition negatively predict delinquency ( < 0.001). Further, positive behavior recognition partially mediated the influence of family functioning on delinquency [ < 0.001, std. error = 0.01, 95% CI = (0.04, 0.07)]. Adolescents with better family functioning had little delinquency behavior, with positive behavior recognition and delinquency behavior negatively reinforcing each other.
This study demonstrated that family functioning was a protective factor against adolescent delinquency and revealed that positive behavior recognition was a critical mediating mechanism linking family functioning to delinquency.
尽管许多研究都集中在家庭功能对青少年发展的影响上，但关于家庭功能与犯罪行为之间关系的实证研究却很少。本研究旨在通过探讨家庭功能对青少年犯罪的影响以及连接这些过程的机制来填补这一空白。
我们从一个前瞻性的基于学校的队列成都积极儿童发展（CPCD）项目中得出了基线数据。学生们回答了一份包含家庭功能、积极行为识别和犯罪行为的验证性测量的问卷。我们利用结构方程模型和最大似然估计来测试这些关系。
在 8811 名中国青少年中，中国青少年犯罪行为的发生率相对较低。家庭功能和积极行为识别对犯罪行为有负向预测作用（<0.001）。进一步的，积极行为识别部分中介了家庭功能对犯罪行为的影响[<0.001，标准误=0.01，95%置信区间（0.04，0.07）]。家庭功能较好的青少年犯罪行为较少，积极行为识别和犯罪行为相互负向强化。
本研究表明，家庭功能是青少年犯罪的保护因素，并揭示了积极行为识别是连接家庭功能与犯罪行为的关键中介机制。
