The perceived social contexts of adolescents' misconduct: A comparative study of youths in three cultures

By E. Greenberger, Chuansheng Chen, Margaret R. Beam, Sang-Min Whang, Qi Dong. 2000

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This cross-cultural, ecologically framed study (Bronfenbrenner, 1989) examined relations between adolescents' involvement in misconduct and their perceptions of others' behavior and attitudes toward youths' misconduct (i.e., family members, close friends, school peers, and neighborhood adults). Participants were 16- to 17-year-olds in the Los Angeles area (n = 201), Seoul, Korea (n = 391), and Tianjin, China (n = 502). As anticipated, U.S. youths engaged in more misconduct than Korean and Chinese youths, and Koreans exceeded Chinese. In multivariate analyses, perceived behavior and sanctions of close friends were the strongest predictors of misconduct across all 3 cultural settings. An independent effect of school peers on misconduct was detected only among Chinese youths, whereas a unique effect of neighborhood adults was found only among U.S. adolescents. The absence of perceived neighborhood effects for Korean and Chinese youths was due primarily to shared variance between perceived behavior of neighbo...

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology

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Adolescent Problem Behavior in China and the United States: A Cross‐National Study of Psychosocial Protective Factors (2003, background): “…from the large literature on peer models as a key risk factor for adolescent problem behavior in the United States (e.g., Costa et al., 1999; Greenberger et al., 2000; Jessor et al., 1998b; Jessor et al., 1995; Kandel, 1985; Oetting & Beauvais, 1987) and among Chinese adolescents (e.g.,…”
Exotic Enterprise No More? Adolescent Reports of Family and Parenting Processes From Youth in Four Countries (2003, result): “Don, & Guo, 1998; Greenberger, Chen, Beam, Whang, & Dong, 2000 ) has also provided some support for similarities in process between family and peer factors and adolescent misconduct for U.S., Chinese, and Korean youth, although they also found some process differences between U.S.”
The Role of Social Contexts in Adolescence: Context Protection and Context Risk in the United States and China (2005, background): “Models for substance use, aggression, and theft in the family, peer, school, and neighborhood contexts were all positively associated with 11th-grade Chinese adolescents’ overall level of involvement in those behaviors; in addition, parental sanctions and peer sanctions were negatively associated wi”
Perceived Social Environment and Adolescents’ Well-Being and Adjustment: Comparing a Foster Care Sample With a Matched Sample (2006, methodology): “” Problem behavior was assessed by a 20-item misconduct scale (Greenberger et al., 2000).”
Culture and accountability in organizations: Variations in forms of social control across cultures (2004, unknown): “Greenberger et al. (2000) found that children in the United States, a loose culture (Gelfand, 1999), perceived less sanctions for misconduct and engaged in more misconduct, as compared with their Chinese and Korean counterparts.”