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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Gottfredson"”.
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A Test of Low Self-control Theory Using General Patterns of Deviance
Gottfredson and Hirschi's (1990) General Theory of Crime has received extensive attention over the past decade. This dissertation explores the scope and limitation of the theory by testing a wide variety of behaviors against the causal effect of low self-control. Utilizing the attitudinal scale …
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An Examination of Circumscription and Compromise in Career Decision-Making Among College Students
… study examined some hypotheses generated from Gottfredson's theory of career aspiration (1981, Journal of Counseling Psychology, 28, 545-597). Gottfredson suggested that individuals eliminate career choice based on sextype, prestige, and field of interest. The theory maintained that individuals …
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Teacher Empathy and Its Relationship to the Standardized Test Scores of Diverse Secondary Students
… Eccles (1992), Harris and Rosenthal (1985) and Gottfredson, Marciniak, Birdseye and Gottfredson (1995). The study attempted to see if the relationship was stronger based on the ethnicity and course level of the students. The results indicate that the null hypothesis cannot be rejected, so it is …
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Women, sexuality, and social control: A study in deviance
… theory (Hirschi 1969) and Self-Control Theory (Gottfredson and Hirschi 1990). Examination of these theories as they apply to women is the second main component to the study. All-female data provides a new perspective from which to evaluate the major traditions of deviance theory.
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Bullies, fights and guns: Self-control theory as an explanation for juvenile use of intimidation and violence
… addresses these issues by applying a test of Gottfredson and Hirschi's (1990) general theory of crime to an examination of a wide range of violent and intimidating acts. Specifically, the effects of self-control and opportunity on bullying, righting and weapon related behaviors are tested. …
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Differential effects of the structure of opportunity on the development of career aspirations: A study of Project Talent participants
… interests, abilities, and values) cited in Gottfredson's (1981) developmental theory of occupational aspirations, and the structure of opportunity presented in Astin's (1984) sociopsychological model of career choice and work behavior. The results support the inclusion of the structure of …
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The Role of Lifestyles and Routine Activities on Youth Sexual Assault and Intimate Partner Victimization
… 1979) and lifestyle-exposure theory (Hindelang, Gottfredson & Garofalo, 1978). Drawing from previous research and the lifestyle-routine activities framework, this study utilized the National Youth Risk Behavior Survey (N=13,538) to examine what factors increased a youth's risk of experiencing …
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Change in Family Structure and Rates of Violent Juvenile Delinquency
… of people who can trust others. I examine Gottfredson and Hirschi's self-control theory (1990) as a possible theoretical explanation of the correlation between changes in family structure and juvenile delinquency. Previous research has shown with less supervision, monitoring and punishing …
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Collaborating with Black first-generation African youth for local career interventions
… Diemer, & Autin, 2016; Fouad & Kantamneni, 2013; Gottfredson, 1996; Lent, Brown, & Hackett, 1994, 2000). The purpose of this study is to contribute the voices and advocacy of Black youth, a group of individuals directly involved by disparities in career outcomes. Participatory action research …
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Violent socialization processes and criminal behavior: An international perspective on variations in social control during late adolescence and emerging adulthood
<p>Using Gottfredson and Hirschi's parental socialization thesis as a theoretical framework, the present study explores whether or not violent socialization processes are associated with criminal behavior, both at the micro-level and macro-level, across 32 different nations. Analyses were conducted …
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Preferencias laborales y barreras de carrera percibidas en la ingeniería de edificación: análisis desde la perspectiva de género.
… el modelo de desarrollo de carrera de Linda S. Gottfredson (1981, 1996), las preferencias de los individuos, así como su percepción de barreras u oportunidades, son factores influyentes que pueden ayudar a explicar y predecir la conformación de las aspiraciones ocupacionales de las personas. …
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Individual differences as predictors of accidents in early adulthood.
… from mortality to dementia (Batty, Deary, & Gottfredson, 2007; Snowdon, et al., 1996), often independent of potentially confounding variables (e.g., socioeconomic status). One health outcome that has not been thoroughly explored in the CE literature is accidents and unintentional injuries. …
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Áhugakönnun fyrir börn og unglinga: Er hægt að meta áhugasvið byggt á áhugamálum og tómstundum ?
… um fólk-hluti og hugmynd-gögn sem og kenningu Gottfredson (1981) um áhrif kynbundinna staðalímynda á áhuga og fyrri rannsóknum hérlendis (Einarsdóttir, Rounds og Su, 2010). Fylgni á milli niðurstöðu meginþáttagreiningar og fjölvíddargreiningar gaf til kynna að þessar aðferðir skili svipuðum …
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Causes and consequences of low self-control: Empirical tests of the general theory of crime.
… empirically tested the general propositions of Gottfredson and Hirschi's general theory of crime (1990). Specifically, the core concept of the theory, self-control, is operationalized using two data sets--Richmond Youth Project and Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development--and tested using …
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The Occupational Engagement Scale for Employed Adults - Revised (OES-EA-R): Further validation and correlations with personality and Holland code type
… Dictionary of Holland Occupational Codes (DHOC; Gottfredson & Holland, 1996), resulting in the following breakdown of 25 Realistic (10%), 43 Investigative (16%), 26 Artistic (10%), 64 Social (24%), 70 Enterprising (27%), and 34 Conventional (13%). Utilizing Maximum Likelihood analysis, two …
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Investigating sex differences in, and predictors of, violent and nonviolent offending behaviour
… 1983). However, generalist theories (e.g. Gottfredson & Hirschi, 1990; Felson, 2002) suggest that crimes stem from the same etiology and share some commonalities: therefore perpetrators are likely to be generalists who perpetrate a variety of crimes rather than specialising solely in one …
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Enhancing the auditor's fraud detection ability: An interdisciplinary approach
… the MFG study findings cast doubt (I) on Gottfredson and Hirschi's (1990) assertion in their General Theory of Crime that white-collar offenders are not significantly different from common offenders and (2) on a basic premise of Loebbecke et al.'s (1989) fraud risk-assessment model that …
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Compromises in career-related decisions: Hypothetical choices, individual differences,and actual outcomes
… in career-related decisions, as a test of Gottfredson's (2002) theory of circumscription and compromise. Sex-type, prestige, and work activities are important dimensions along which individuals consider occupational alternatives. However, because these dimensions naturally covary across …