The associations between psychosocial factors and behavioural problems in juvenile delinquency

Pages: 1846-1848
Nupur Kumari and Manisha Kiran (Department of Psychiatric Social Work, RINPAS, Ranchi, Jharkhand)

Juvenile Delinquency is a serious and common problem. The present study was to assess the association between psychosocial factors and behavioural problems among delinquent adolescents. This cross sectional study examined 50 adolescents with delinquent behaviour and their parents. Socio-demographic and clinical data sheet was used. Child Behaviour Checklist was administered on the parents. Findings indicate significant association at p<0.05/p<0.01 level on the variable of education, occupation, religion and residence with components of child behaviour checklist. There was no significant association on the socio-demographic variable of family type, family size, family income and ethnicity. Overall findings suggest that it is the complete responsibility of the society to come up with comprehensive methods to counteract it from these social evils. The role of education is very important in bringing up a child normally which decides the child behaviour in a positive way.