Vaux A, Ruggiero M
Am J Community Psychol. 1983 Apr;11(2):169-83. doi: 10.1007/BF00894365.
The study examined life change in relation to self-reported involvement in five specific types of crime and delinquency among members of a noninstitutionalized sample. A group of 531 in-school youths, age 14 to 19, were asked to report how frequently in the 6 months since school started they had performed each of 26 criminal or delinquent acts and how many of 20 potentially stressful life events they had experienced in the year preceding the start of school. Regression analyses showed that, for both males and females, life change added significantly to age and SES in predicting violence, theft, drug use, property damage, and a group of relatively nonserious delinquent acts. On the basis of social psychological theory and research, possible explanatory mechanisms in the link between life stress and specific forms of crime and delinquency are discussed as part of a proposed life stress-deviance model.
该研究调查了非机构化样本成员自我报告的参与五种特定类型犯罪和违法行为与生活变化之间的关系。一组531名年龄在14至19岁的在校青少年被要求报告自开学以来的6个月内他们实施26种犯罪或违法行为的频率，以及在开学前一年中他们经历的20种潜在压力性生活事件的数量。回归分析表明，对于男性和女性而言，在预测暴力、盗窃、吸毒、财产破坏以及一组相对不太严重的违法行为时，生活变化在年龄和社会经济地位之外显著增加了预测力。基于社会心理学理论和研究，作为拟议的生活压力-越轨行为模型的一部分，讨论了生活压力与特定犯罪和违法行为形式之间联系的可能解释机制。
