A Research On Correlations Among Personality Traits, Parenting Styles, Peer Relationships And Juvenile Crime

Juvenile crime has always been concerned in the world, which is a serious social problem. Teenagers are the future and hope of the country whose healthy growth plays an important role in the national development. With the trend of juvenile delinquency's age decreasing, the number of young criminals increasing and the means of offences being adult-oriented, criminologists, sociologists and psychologists have researched the reasons of their crimes in theory and practice, they have found that personality traits, parenting styles and peer relationships are three related factors that can separately affect juvenile delinquency. Personality traits interact with parenting styles; parenting styles impact peer interaction, which can lead to crime. The limitations of their researches are:firstly, they don't take the multi-factors into consideration; secondly, their research methods were mostly descriptive statistics and simple correlation analysis.On the basis of tracing the predecessors'research, this thesis attempts to reveal the relationships among personality traits, parenting styles, peer relationships and juvenile crime by using the methods of questionnaire survey and multivariate statistical analysis. The sample of 257 subjects are from the juvenile police of Hunan Province, in accordance with the sampling principles of randomly stratified. We hope to discover the law of juvenile delinquency, provide psychological evidence in juvenile crime prevention and education. The result shows that:1.There exists a negative relationship between juvenile crime and psychotics of personality traits, Psychotics of nonviolent offender are higher than violent offenders'.The correlation differs due to various ecucation backgrounds.2.The correlation between juvenile crime and refusing or denying of father'parenting styles is negative, The degree of negative father's refusing or denying of nonviolent offenders is higher than that of violent offenders'; Negative correlation is also found among refusing or denying of mothers', severe penalties of mothers'and juvenile delinquency, mother's refusing and denying of non-violent offender and mother's severe penalties of nonviolent offender are higher than that of violent offenders'.The correlation differs due to various ecucation backgrounds.3.There exists the positive correlation between juvenile crime and emotional bonding of peer relationships, emotional bonding of violent offender is higher than nonviolent offenders'. The correlation differs due to various ecucation backgrounds.4.In the model of research relationships among personality, parenting styles, peer relationships and juvenile crime, refusing or denying of father and mother's parenting styles impact the minor to committing nonviolent crimes; Preference, refusing and denying, excessive interference of father's parenting styles through neurotic influence juvenile'violent crime; mother's emotional warmth, excessive interference and preference impact on juvenile violent crime through neurotic. Mother's emotional warmth, excessive interference and preference impact on juvenile'violent crime through the personality traits; neurotic and psychotics impact on juvenile violent crime through emotional bonding; mother's preference impact on juvenile violent crime through emotional bonding; mother's emotional warmth affects psychotics of personality traits, psychotics influence emotional bonding, and emotional bonding influence juvenile violent crime.From the results of this study, we can see that changing the incorrect parenting styles, concerning the peer relationships and focussing on personality cultivation are effective measures for prevention and correction of juvenile crime.