Needs analysis for the personal, social, and psychological adjustment of adolescents at risk of delinquency and juvenile offenders

  1. Érika Mayorga-Sierra 1
  2. Mercedes Novo 2
  3. Francisca Fariña 3
  4. Dolores Seijo 2
  1. 1 Universidad Santo Tomás Bogotá (Colombia)
  2. 2 Psicología Organizacional, Jurídica Forense y Metodología de las Ciencias del Comportamiento Facultad de Psicología. Universidad de Santiago de Compostela (España)
  3. 3 Departamento AIPSE Universidad de Vigo (España)
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Journal:
Anales de psicología

ISSN: 0212-9728,  1695-2294

Year of publication: 2020

Volume: 36

Issue: 3

Pages: 400-407

Type: Article

DOI: 10.6018/ANALESPS.428631 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openDIGITUM editor

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Abstract

Literature has found that non-criminogenic needs also are a juvenile delinquency risk factor and, consequently, should be target of intervention. With the aim of knowing if individual, social and psychological adjustment differ between juvenile offenders and foster care adolescents with normal adolescents was designed. A total of 450 adolescents (150 juvenile offenders, 150 foster care adolescents, and 150 normal adolescents) were evaluated in individual, social and psychological adjustment. The results showed a significant effect in the individual, social and psychological adjustment for the population factor. Succinctly, juvenile offenders and foster care adolescents displayed a higher individual maladjustment in the personal and family level than normal adolescents, and, additionally, juvenile offenders in the social level. Likewise, juvenile offenders and foster care adolescents exhibited a higher social maladjustment consisting in more social withdrawal, social anxiety/shyness, and leadership than normal adolescents; and juvenile offenders revealed less consideration for others than normal adolescents. In psychological adjustment, juvenile offenders and foster care adolescents reported more obsessive-compulsive, interpersonal sensitivity, depression, hostile, phobic-anxiety, and psychotic symptomology than normal adolescent; and foster care adolescent more somatic, anxiety (generalized) and paranoid symptoms than normal adolescents. The deficits in these needs were quantified as to estimate the magnitude of the intervention. Theoretical and practical implications for intervention of the results are discussed

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Esta investigaci?n fue financiada, en parte, por el Ministerio de Econom?a, Industria y Competitividad en el marco de proyecto con referencia PSI2017-87278-R.

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