Effect of Parenting Attitudes on Delinquency of Multicultural Adolescents: Focusing on Mediating Effect of Psychological Maladjustment

Abstract

This study identified the effect of parenting attitudes perceived by multicultural adolescents on delinquency and investigated the mediating effect of psychological maladjustment of multicultural adolescents in this relationship. As for the research method, SPSS 22.0 and AMOS 22.0 were used for 1,146 third-grade high school students of the 9th multicultural adolescents panel, and the analysis results are as follows. First, in the case of parental support, it does not directly affect the delinquency of multicultural adolescents, but there was a significantly positive effect of lowering it by significantly lowering psychological maladjustment. Second, supervisionary parenting attitude had a positive effect of directly lowering the delinquency of multicultural adolescents and indirectly lowering the delinquency by lowering psychological maladjustment. Third, the mediating effect of psychological maladjustment of parental support was greater than that of supervisionary parenting attitude, but in the total effect, supervisionary parenting attitude had a more positive effect than parental support. Finally, neglectful parenting attitude did not directly affect delinquency, but it negatively affected the psychological maladjustment of multicultural adolescents, resulting in a negative mediating effect of increasing the level of delinquency. However, the total effect was not significant.