The Causes of Adolescent Anti-Social Behaviour

The following paper reviews two studies in the field of developmental psychology; more specifically, it focuses upon adolescent antisocial behaviour. The researchers of these two studies published their results in reputable psychology journals. The first study dealt with children who were in the sixth, seventh, and eighth grades. Researchers gave a survey to the 163 participants, (72 males and 91 females). The survey listed 23 antisocial behaviours, and the young adolescents reported whether they had ever participated in each …

…the subject in the past and will continue to do so. Nonetheless, by combining the two studies, I can understand better the causes of adolescent antisocial behaviour as whole. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography** Marcus, Robert. “A Gender-Linked Exploratory Factor Analysis of Antisocial Behavior in Young Adolescents”. Adolescence. Vol. 34, No. 133, Spring 1999: 33-45 Lewin, Lewis et. al. “Childhood Social Predictors of Adolescent Antisocial Behavior: Gender Differences in Predictive Accuracy and Efficacy”. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology. Vol. 27, No. 4, 1999: 277-282