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Mending Ties: A 3 Year Examination of Change in Mother-Adolescent Child Relationship Quality for Reformed Delinquents

Lee, Theresa D
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1699349835770718

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2023, Master of Arts (MA), Bowling Green State University, Sociology.
Considerable research has confirmed the importance of parent-child relationship quality for deterring adolescents’ delinquent behavior; less research has examined the influence that change in delinquent behavior has on improving previously strained parent-child relationships. This thesis explored the effect that desisting from delinquent behavior, including school suspension/expulsion, arrest, juvenile incarceration, and self-reported delinquent behavior, has on perceived mother-child closeness, identity support, and coercive parenting using the longitudinal Toledo Adolescent Relationships Study (TARS) (n = 535). Baseline associations between delinquent and non-delinquent youths and (a) mother-child relationship closeness, (b) identity support, and (c) coercive parenting were examined. Next, change in mother-child relationship quality among adolescents with three years of desisting behavior was examined. Lastly, differences in the association between daughters’ versus sons’ persisting delinquent behavior and mother-child relationship quality was examined. Results indicate that desisting adolescents reported higher levels of parent-child identity support and lower levels of coercive parenting. Additionally, daughters, compared with sons, who continued to engage in delinquent behaviors had higher odds of experiencing coercive parenting. Substantively overall, desisting youth appear to be mending ties and strengthening parent-child relationship quality through their desisting behaviors.
Monica Longmore, Ph.D. (Committee Chair)
Peggy Giordano, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Wendy Manning, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
53 p.
Criminology; Sociology
Mother-child relationship quality; delinquency; and desistance;

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  • Lee, T. D. (2023). Mending Ties: A 3 Year Examination of Change in Mother-Adolescent Child Relationship Quality for Reformed Delinquents [Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1699349835770718

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Lee, Theresa. Mending Ties: A 3 Year Examination of Change in Mother-Adolescent Child Relationship Quality for Reformed Delinquents . 2023. Bowling Green State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1699349835770718.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Lee, Theresa. "Mending Ties: A 3 Year Examination of Change in Mother-Adolescent Child Relationship Quality for Reformed Delinquents ." Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University, 2023. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1699349835770718

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