Influence of parent discipline style on delinquent behaviour: The mediating role of control orientation

Abstract
The effects of parental discipline style on adolescent personality and behaviour wm investigated in the light of moral development and social learning theories. Two hundred and thirty‐one adolescents (201 high school students and 30 adjudicated delinquents) and 110 parents responded to questionnaires. Measures of parental inductiveness, love‐withdrawal and punitiveness were related to adolescents' locus of control, hostility and delinquent behaviour. When self‐reported delinquency was regressed on parental inductiveness, love‐withdrawal and punitiveness, locus of control was found to mediate the effects of the independent variables.

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