Estudio de la evolución natural y del riesgo de desviación en una muestra de menoresinfluencia del estilo atribucional

Resumo

Atribucional style is a cognitive factor profusely studied, that has related with antisocial behavior (Garrido & Lopez-Latorre, 1995). Peterson and Leigh (1990) inform that minors who present antisocial behaviors use explanations based on a external locus of control, which means that they do not assume the responsibility of the facts they associate that there are imputed they, attributing them to external reasons. Even more, Garrido and López-Latorre (1995) and Conesa (1993), estimate that the external atribucional style increases the vulnerability of the individual to demonstrate bosses of antisocial conduct. Considering these postulates, in the present work the influence on the deviant behavior of the minor atribucional style is analyzed, attending to the social risk in which this one is situated immersed (high risk of social deviancy vs under risk of social deviancy) and to his natural evolution (age with penal responsibility vs. age without penal responsibility). We applied the Scale of locus of Control (Rotter, 1966) to a sample of 405 minors. Results indicate that the atributional process does not happen in the factor social risk. Finally, there are discussed the implications of these results for the prevention and intervention on antisocial behaviour, especially, the criminal one.