The purpose of this study was to investigate how juvenile delinquency differed depending on parents-adolescents conflicts and to find out the core factor of the conflicts. This study focused the parents-adolescents conflicts on cognitive component, es...
The purpose of this study was to investigate how juvenile delinquency differed depending on parents-adolescents conflicts and to find out the core factor of the conflicts. This study focused the parents-adolescents conflicts on cognitive component, especially incompatibility perception which previous studies in the industrial field showed as a cause for conflicts. This study measured the fixed-sum error based on the research model of Thompson and applied it to parents-adolescents conflicts. For the study, 149 students of high school(boys) rated questionnaires measuring parents-adolescents conflicts, empathic response, delinquency and fixed-sum error. As results, the more parents-adolescents conflicts exist, the higher juvenile delinquency is. Second, the fixed-sum error mediated the effect of parents-adolescents conflicts on juvenile delinquency. Third, the more fixed-sum error exisits, the lower empathy is. The implication of this study is that it gives a new perception of juvenile delinquency through incompatibility perception as a core mechanism and when dealing with parents-adolescents conflict incompatibility perception must be consider as a core factor of the conflict.