The age-graded effects of psychosocial maturity on legal socialization across the adolescent developmental course in youth offenders

IF 1.7 3区心理学 Q3 PSYCHOLOGY, DEVELOPMENTAL

Applied Developmental Science Pub Date : 2022-04-28 DOI:10.1080/10888691.2022.2067854

Colleen M. Berryessa, Thomas W. Wojciechowski

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Abstract

Abstract This study, using a sample of youth offenders from the Pathways to Desistance Study (N = 1354), examines Greenberger and Sorensen’s model of “psychosocial maturity” as a predictor of legal socialization (legal cynicism and legitimacy) across the adolescent developmental course, as well as the differential importance of this relationship by age. Psychosocial maturity significantly predicted lower levels of legal cynicism, but also lower levels of legitimacy, from ages 14–25. Yet, when considering the salience of these relationships by age, results suggest that the relationship between psychosocial maturity and legitimacy may show little variation as adolescent offenders age, but that the salience of psychosocial maturity on explaining patterns of legal cynicism declines with age during development into emerging adulthood. This work’s potential implications for promising interventions that foster psychosocial maturity in early adolescence to reduce legal cynicism of youth who have offended or are at high-risk of offending are discussed.

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青少年罪犯青少年发展过程中心理社会成熟度对法律社会化的影响

摘要这项研究，使用了一个来自逃学途径研究的青少年罪犯样本（N = 1354），研究了Greenberger和Sorensen的“心理社会成熟度”模型，该模型是青少年发展过程中法律社会化（法律犬儒主义和合法性）的预测因素，以及这种关系随年龄的不同重要性。从14岁到25岁，心理社会成熟度显著预测了法律犬儒主义的程度较低，但合法性的水平也较低。然而，当按年龄考虑这些关系的显著性时，研究结果表明，随着青少年罪犯的年龄增长，心理社会成熟度和合法性之间的关系可能几乎没有变化，但在成年后的发展过程中，心理社会熟度在解释法律犬儒主义模式方面的显著性随着年龄的增长而下降。讨论了这项工作对有希望的干预措施的潜在影响，这些干预措施可以促进青春期早期的心理社会成熟，以减少冒犯或有冒犯风险的年轻人的法律冷嘲热讽。

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Applied Developmental Science PSYCHOLOGY, DEVELOPMENTAL-

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