The author has tried to ext:-act antisocial personality and attitude variables which can discriminate delinquent adolescents from adolescent students and to make the development of delinquency, prediction scale, thus identifying students who have high delinquent propensity in early stage and providing coping strategies for them.
Two thousand one hundred and ninety seven (2, 197) persons served for this study comprised of 1, 440 :adolescent students from eight boy´s and girl´s junior and senior high schools, and 757 adolescent delinquents from four juvenile correctional institutions in Seoul and the other two countries.
Sampling were made through disproportional probability sampling procedure, and questionnaires composed of thirty five items related to the antisocial personality and attitude were supplied.
The collected data were processed by CDC-174 computer of the KAIST, and were statistically analysed by t-test and multiple discriminant function analysis with SPSS program_
Summary of the major findings were as follows.
1. The total score of the Chung Ang University self-rating Antisocial Personality Scale of the delinquent adolescent (0. 3590. 170) was higher than that of the adolescent student (0.2500. 162). This result suggest that the higher antisocial personality trend correspond with the higher delinquent inclination.
2. The total score of the negative attitude toward the society in the delinquent adolescent (0. 099 -0. 024) was higher than that of the adolescent student (0. 0920. 067), and the total score of the negative attitude toward the. teacher in the delinquent adolescent (0. 094=0.052) was higher than that of the adolescent student (0.089=:0.044) , but there is no significant difference between the delinquent adolescent and adolescent student to the score of negative attitude toward the elders. These results suggest that the delinquent inclination is higher in the occasion of the distorted attitude toward the ´society and the teacher.
3. In comparison of mean score of discriminant function coefficients between delinquent adolescent and adolescent student throughout the MDFA, the antisocial trend in the delinquent adolescent (0. 846) was higher` than that of the adolescent student ( 0. 284). This result suggest that the delinquent adolescent tend to have higher antisocial inclination than that of the adolescent student.
4. The result of multiple discriminant function analysis to know the discrimination ability of the antisocial personality and attitude items to predict the delinquent adolescent from adolescent student show that 35 items of antisocial personality and attitude scale has seventy three percent in its accuracy to discriminate the differences of both groups effectively. This result suggest´ that the antisocial persona-
lity and attitude scale of this study has higher validity to extract delinquent adolescent and little:, possibility in taking mistake to extract delinquent adolescent.
5. The highest delinquent prediction factor among thirty five antisocial personality and attitude items. was negative attitude toward the money-oriented society which has discriminant coefficient as 0.417. The other items which has higher discriminant coefficient more than 0. 1 were verbal aggressive dri-. e,, drunken impulse, lying impulse, critical attitude toward teacher´s hypocricy, mistrusting impulse,, staying out late impulse; attitude toward social disadvantage, stormy aggressive drive, stealing impulse and slovenly appearance in their orders.
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