Objects:
@EN The purpose of this study was to classify the current family type and juvenile criminal patterns in Korea, and then examine the correlation between juvenile criminal pattern and family type, environmental stress and personality variables of
the
adolescents.
@ES Methods:
@EN The data were collected through the questionnaire survey. Subjects served for this study consisted of 1,696 adolescents(1,283 student adolescents: 413 delinquent adolescents) in Korea, sampled from Korean student population and adolescent
delinquent
population confined in juvenile correctional institutions, using the proportional stratified sampling method. Their age range was between 12 and 18. The actual number of cases put into the analysis was 1,555 including 1,202 student adolescents
and
353
delinquent adolescents.
Data were analysed by SAS program, Statistical methods employed were, factor analysis correlation analysis and partial correlation analysis etc.
@ES Results:
@EN 1) Analysis of adolescents reports of family dynamic environment yielded 6 family types including impulsive family type, well-functioning family type, constricted family type, chaotic family type, closed family type and immature family type
in
the
order of their explanatory variate. In word, impulsive family type is operationalized as involving impulsiveness of family members, acting out, emotional explosion, resistance toward authoritative figure including their parents and adults,
blurred
role
boundaries of family member, constricted family type as involving restricted parenting to children, punishment-oriented, autocratic father and submissive mother, chaotic family type as involving parental breakup, selfish parent, economic problem,
mistrust and neglect among family members, closed family type as involving social isolation, mistrust to surrounding world, parental indifference and neglect toward their children, independency of family members, indecisiveness, pathological
bonding of
family members including winning of spouse's favour and maternal dominance-paternal ineffectiveness, projection and conjugal competition.
Whereas the construct defining well-functioning family type is conceptualized as involving childrens' respect toward parent, democratic and flexible parental attitude toward their children, cooperation and trust among family members and
harmonious
parent-child relationship etc.
2) Through the literature review, the authors arbitrarily classified the 4 juvenile criminal patterns as follows: crimes against property, aggressive crimes, assault crimes and violation of criminal special law.
3) The hypothesis 1 is that there will be significant correlation between family type and the severity of juvenile criminal patterns. Through the correlation analysis, the hypothesis was supported. To put it concretely, of the correlation
between
the
severity of juvenile climinal pattern and family type in Korea, impulsive family type significantly correlated with the severity of object-oriented crime, that is, damage to property, robbery, burglary and so on, whereas chaotic family type and
closed
family type significantly correlated with the severity of personoriented crime(crimes against person), that is violent act, physical assault and so on.
4) The hypothesis 2 is that there will be significant correlation between family type, severity of juvenile criminal behavior and environmental and personality variables of adolescent. In this paper, environmental variables of adolescent were
measured
by death of parent, trouble between parent, divorce of parent, chronic disease of family member, parental overdrinking and dissipation, severe conflict with parent, trouble with lover and problem in a course of one's life. And personality
variables
of
adolescent were measured by trouble among family member, habitual alcohol drinking, emotional instability, impulsiveness, truancy, runaway, resistance toward authoritative figure and intolerance. From this finding using the partial correlation
analysis,
it revealed that the environmental and personality variables of adolescent such as chronic disease of family member, trouble with lover, trouble among family member, emotional instability and resistance toward authoritative figure were
significantly
correlated with the impulsive family type and the personality variables of adolescent such as impulsiveness intolerance and resistance toward authoritative figure had statistically significant correlation with the severity of damage of property
in
the
impulsive family type. And the environmental stress and personality variables of adolescent such as problem in a course of one's life and trouble among family member were significantly correlated with the closed family type and the personality
variables
of adolescent such as intolerance, impulsiveness and resistance toward authoritative figure were significantly correlated with the severity of aggressive crimes in the closed family type.
However, the authors did not find any environmental stress and personality variables of adolescent that were significantly correlated with the chaotic family type, whereas the problem behavior of adolescents such as truancy and runaway was
significantly
correlated with the severity of assault crimes in the chaotic family type.
Finally, the authors suggest that personality variable of adolescent such as impulsiveness, truancy and runaway were significantly correlated with the closed family type, also truancy and runaway were significantly correlated with the severity of
assault crimes in the closed family type.
5) The hypothesis 3 is that the family environmental stress and personality variables of adolescent will serve as mediating variables in the correlation between family type and juvenile criminal pattern.
Environmental stress and personality variables of adolescents such as death of mother and/or father, parental divorce, disharmonious parent-child relationship, chronic disease of family member, emotional instability, impulsiveness and resistance
toward
authoritative figure were not play as mediating variables in the correlation between family type and juvenile criminal pattern in this study through the hypothesis testing. Accordingly this hypothesis was rejected.
@ES Conclusion:
@EN The various family types including. Accordingly this hypothesis was rejected.
Tended to exert significant influence on the severity of juvenile crimes such as against property, aggressive crimes and assault crimes. While environmental stress and personality factors of adolescent had direct effect upon juvenile criminal
patterns
and severity of juvenile criminal act, they did not play a mediating role in the processing of serious degree of criminal manifestation influenced by family tpes.
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