Rahman, Zulaiha A Rahman
(2006)
Attachment to Peers and Delinquency.
Other.
Universiti Sains Malaysia.
(Submitted)
Abstract
The present research was designed to investigate the relationship between peer
attachment and delinquency. The samples of this study are incarcerated youth from Henry
Gurney School, Batu Gajah, Perak and Henry Gurney School, Ayer Keroh, Malacca and
consisted of 32 female and 141 male juveniles that are randomly selected. A set of
questionnaire was used to measure peer attachment and delinquency among these
juveniles. The peer attachment questionnaire is a simplified version of the Inventory of
Parent and Peer Attachment (IPP A: Armsden & Greenberg, 1987). It comprised 25 items
divided into three main scales, i.e. trust, communication and alienation. The self-reported
delinquency questionnaire comprised 29 items related on individual involvement in
delinquent activities. The hypotheses were tested by using the Pearson product moment
correlation and t-test analysis using the SPSS/PC and package for statistical analysis. The
results indicated that there is no significant correlation between peer attachment and
delinquency in juveniles. However, a significant negative correlation exists between
subscale of peer attachment quality of communication and delinquency in male juveniles.
In term of peer attachment quality, the present study found a correlation between subscale
of peer attachment quality of trust and subscale of peer attachment quality of
communication in juveniles. It is interesting to note that, male juveniles tend to show
higher mean value of delinquency than female juveniles. Regarding involvement of
juveniles in group, juveniles who reported involve in group showed higher mean value of
delinquency compared to juveniles who did not involved in any group.
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