Title
School social climate and antisocial-criminal behaviour in adolescents
Date Issued
01 January 2020
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Publisher(s)
Ankara University
Abstract
The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between school social climate and antisocial-criminal behavior in third year secondary school students in Tumbes department. The type of research used was descriptive-correlational, non-experimental design. The sample consisted of 346 students of both sexes, their ages ranging from 13 to 17 years old. The instruments used were adapted from the 23-item School Social Climate Scale by R. Moos and E. Tricket and the Antisocial-Delinquent Behavior Questionnaire by Nicolás Seisdedos Cubero with an abbreviation of 20 items that have adequate reliability and validity indices. The results showed that there is a highly significant correlation (,000) being the negative correlation index between school social climate and antisocial-criminal behaviors in third year secondary school students from Tumbes. With respect to school social climate levels, it was found at the medium level with 41.9%, high level with 33.8% and low level with 24.3%. In addition, the levels of antisocial-criminal behaviour were: 35% low level, 30.1% medium high level and 18.5% high level and medium low level with 16.5%. It is concluded that there is a significant negative relationship between school social climate and antisocial delinquent behaviors, which indicates that the higher the school social climate the lower the presence of antisocial delinquent behaviors
Start page
172
End page
178
Volume
19
Issue
4
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Antropología
Psicología (incluye relaciones hombre-máquina)
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85104407293
Source
Elementary Education Online
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