The Differential Relationship between Self-Control and Peer Influences over Time: Toward an Integrative Model of Offending Using a Dual-Systems Approach

2020 ◽  
pp. 001112872097744
Author(s):  
Ha-Neul Yim
Keyword(s):  
Peer Influence ◽  
Systems Approach ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Peer Influences ◽  
Integrative Model ◽  
Deviant Peers ◽  
Dual Systems ◽  
Alternative Approach ◽  
Pathways To Desistance ◽  
Systems Framework

The purpose of this study is to explore an alternative approach to unravel how both self-control and peer influence relate to offending. Deriving from a dual-systems framework, this study hypothesizes that individuals with varying levels of self-control will be differentially susceptible to the effects of both exposure to deviant peers and informal socializing with peers. Analyses are based on a sample of serious youthful offenders from the Pathways to Desistance Study. The results indicate that exposure to deviant peers has a stronger impact on offending for individuals with higher self-control, consistent with the hypothesis. However, individuals with higher self-control are more vulnerable to unstructured and unsupervised socializing with peers than those lower in self-control, which counters the hypothesis.

The influence of deviant peers on the development of boys' disruptive and delinquent behavior: A temporal analysis

1995 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 715-726 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kate Keenan ◽  
Rolf Loeber ◽  
Quanwu Zhang ◽  
Magda Stouthamer-Loeber ◽  
Welmoet B. van Kammen
Keyword(s):  
Behavior Problems ◽  
Disruptive Behavior ◽  
Peer Influence ◽  
Parenting Practices ◽  
Community Sample ◽  
Delinquent Behavior ◽  
Temporal Analysis ◽  
Peer Influences ◽  
Deviant Peers ◽  
Moderating Effects

AbstractThe concurrent and predictive influence of deviant peers on boys' disruptive and delinquent behavior was examined in a community sample of fourth- and seventh-grade boys, who were followed-up over six data waves. Analyses were conducted separately for three different types of behavior problems: authority conflict, covert, and overt disruptive behavior. Consistent with the existing literature, concurrent relations between peers' and boys' disruptive behavior were expected to be significant. A more informative test, however, was whether exposure to deviant peers resulted in boys' subsequent initiation of disruptive behavior. Although peer influences were expected in the predictive analyses, the relations were hypothesized to differ by type of behavior. The potential moderating effects of hyperactivity and poor parenting practices were also examined to test the hypothesis that boys who are already at risk for behavior problems will be more susceptible to deviant peer influence. Results supported the significant concurrent and predictive relation between exposure to deviant peers and boys' engagement in disruptive and delinquent behavior. There were no significant moderating effects of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) or parenting practices on peer influence.

scholarly journals Soil as an Archetype of Complexity: A Systems Approach to Improve Insights, Learning, and Management of Coupled Biogeochemical Processes and Environmental Externalities

Soil Systems ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 39
Author(s):  
Benjamin L. Turner
Keyword(s):  
Complex Systems ◽  
Systems Approach ◽  
Environmental Externalities ◽  
Supporting Evidence ◽  
Soil System ◽  
Tillage Practices ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Tightly Coupled ◽  
Conservation Adoption ◽  
Systems Framework

Due to tightly coupled physical, chemical, and biological processes that often behave in nonlinear, counterintuitive ways, it is argued that soil is an archetype of a complex system. Unfortunately, human intuition and decision making has been shown to be inadequate when dealing with complex systems. This poses significant challenges for managers or policy makers responding to environmental externalities where soil dynamics play a central role (e.g., biogeochemical cycles) and where full ranges of outcomes result from numerous feedback processes not easily captured by reductionist approaches. In order to improve interpretation of these soil feedbacks, a dynamic systems framework is outlined (capturing feedback often excluded from investigation or left to intuition) and then applied to agroecosystem management problems related to irrigation or tillage practices that drive nutrient cycling (e.g., soil water, nitrogen, carbon, and sodium). Key soil feedbacks are captured via a variety of previously developed models simulating soil processes and their interactions. Results indicated that soil system trade-offs arising from conservation adoption (drip irrigation or no-tillage) provided reasonable supporting evidence (via compensating feedbacks) to managers justifying slow adoption of conservation practices. Modeling soils on the foundation provided in the complex systems sciences remains an area for innovations useful for improving soil system management.

scholarly journals Self-control of criminals from a dual-systems model perspective

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (8) ◽  
pp. 1379
Author(s):  
Yi LIU ◽  
Junqi WANG ◽  
Xinjia WU
Keyword(s):  
Self Control ◽  
Dual Systems ◽  
Systems Model

scholarly journals Self-Control in Cyberspace: Applying Dual Systems Theory to Digital Self-Control Tools

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ulrik Lyngs ◽  
Kai Lukoff ◽  
Petr Slovak ◽  
Reuben Binns ◽  
Adam Slack ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Common Core ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Intervention Strategies ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Cognitive Mechanisms ◽  
Dual Systems ◽  
Design Features ◽  
Digital Devices ◽  
Systems Model ◽  
Google Play

Many people struggle to control their use of digital devices. However, our understanding of the design mechanisms that support user self-control remains limited. In this paper, we make two contributions to HCI research in this space: first, we analyse 367 apps and browser extensions from the Google Play, Chrome Web, and Apple App stores to identify common core design features and intervention strategies afforded by current tools for digital self-control. Second, we adapt and apply an integrative dual systems model of self-regulation as a framework for organising and evaluating the design features found. Our analysis aims to help the design of better tools in two ways: (i) by identifying how, through a well-established model of self-regulation, current tools overlap and differ in how they support self-control; and (ii) by using the model to reveal underexplored cognitive mechanisms that could aid the design of new tools.

Social-Ecological Systems in Local Fisheries Communities

2019 ◽  
pp. 304-314
Author(s):  
George O. Tsobanoglou ◽  
Eirini Ioanna Vlachopoulou
Keyword(s):  
Systems Approach ◽  
Ecological Systems ◽  
Local Conservation ◽  
Social Ecological Systems ◽  
Social Ecological ◽  
The Social ◽  
Conservation Actions ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
The Commons ◽  
Systems Framework

Even though the study of the commons has been expanding rapidly in the past years, and there have been multiple cases of successful local conservation initiatives, still, significant gaps in knowledge remain. The Social-Ecological Systems framework attempts to analyse the linkages between the “human system” (society) and the “natural system” (ecosystems). In every conservation attempt, the interactions and feedback between the two systems become evident. By examining thoroughly this relationship through the SES lens, we can develop a deep and holistic understanding of the processes that should be taken into consideration before the implementation of conservation actions. This study, through the exploration of the fisheries management procedures in Japan, attempts to develop an understanding of how the adoption of the Social-Ecological Systems approach could promote local development in the insular periphery of the developed world, in countries like Greece, where public participation in the decision-making processes is limited.

scholarly journals Legitimacy and the Life Course: An Age-graded Examination of Changes in Legitimacy Attitudes over Time

2018 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kyle McLean ◽  
Scott E. Wolfe ◽  
Travis C. Pratt
Keyword(s):  
Emerging Adulthood ◽  
Family Support ◽  
Criminal Behavior ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Criminal Offending ◽  
Latent Growth ◽  
The Life Course ◽  
Pathways To Desistance ◽  
Changes Over Time ◽  
Over Time

Objectives: A body of literature has demonstrated that the perceived legitimacy of legal authorities is an important predictor of criminal offending. Criminal offending is itself age-graded and good explanations of offending should offer some insight for how it changes as individuals age. This article attempts to address this gap by developing and testing seven hypotheses regarding how legitimacy changes over time. Method: Using panel data from the Pathways to Desistance study, a latent growth model (LGM) for legitimacy examines how evaluations of legitimacy change from adolescence to emerging adulthood as well as what factors influence this change. Results: During the period individuals were involved in the study, the LGM revealed that perceptions of legitimacy increase as individuals progress through adolescence before stabilizing in emerging adulthood. Several theoretical factors were related to individuals’ legitimacy evaluations including parental evaluations of legitimacy, family support, emotionality, and self-control. Most importantly, perceptions of procedural justice were found to be related to legitimacy, but this relationship weakened as individuals aged. Conclusions: Evaluations of the legitimacy of legal authorities are, in fact, age-graded. Criminologists should continue to explore the sources of legitimacy evaluations in further developing legitimacy as an important theory of criminal behavior.

Self-control, sleep disturbance, and the mediating role of occupational burnout in married couples

2018 ◽  
Vol 36 (10) ◽  
pp. 3159-3177
Author(s):  
Gregory S. Seibert ◽  
Matthew E. Jaurequi ◽  
Ross W. May ◽  
Ashley N. Cooper ◽  
Thomas Ledermann ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sleep Disturbance ◽  
Married Couples ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Mediation Model ◽  
Occupational Burnout ◽  
Relational Context ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Alternative Approach ◽  
The U.S

Although the importance of occupational burnout for sleep has long been recognized, it is largely examined as an individual phenomenon. Because a majority of adults in the U.S. share the bedroom with their partner, the current study examines the role of occupational burnout in understanding the link between self-control and sleep disturbance in close relationships. Data from 96 married couples were analyzed using the actor–partner interdependence mediation model. Both husbands’ and wives’ self-control (predictor) were linked to their levels of occupational burnout (mediator), and to husbands’ sleep disturbance (outcome) through husbands’ occupational burnout. Neither husbands’ or wives’ self-control nor occupational burnout scores related to wives’ sleep disturbance. Findings from the current study identify burnout management in husbands as a potential nonpharmacological alternative approach to treating sleep disorders and emphasizes the need to examine predictors of sleep in a relational context.

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