The Effect of Community Disorder on Impulsivity: Focusing on Mediating Effects of Social Stigma

Violent crimes by juveniles have been steadily increasing in recent years, which has become a social issue. In particular, the increase in incidental crimes among young people is a big social problem. In other words, there are many cases where a crime is committed immediately and accidentally by impulsivity without considering the consequences of the action. As such, impulsivity can be said to be one of the causes of juvenile delinquency and crime. Therefore, in this study, among various factors affecting impulsivity, community disorder, which can be said to be an environmental factor, and frustration and anger are experienced and accepted as social outcasts. tried to investigate the relevance of social stigma. In other words, the purpose of this study was to examine the mediating effect of social stigma in the effect of community disorder on impulsivity. As a result of the study, community disorder was found to affect social stigma, and social stigma was found to affect impulsivity. In addition, community disorder was found to have an effect on impulsivity, suggesting that social stigma had a mediating effect in the process of community disorder affecting impulsivity. As a result of bootstrapping for mediating effect verification, it was confirmed that social stigma had a mediating effect in the process of community disorder affecting impulsivity.